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Organise the South! Arkansas workers make the case

FOR decades, the South has been the Achilles heel of the US labour movement. 

While unions took root and thrived in places like the industrial Midwest and the north-east, or in the ports and plants of West Coast states in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, Dixie remained a tough slog. 

This is the place where right to work was born over 70 years ago, where reactionary politics have often been the only kind of politics. And where the “colour line” dividing black workers from white ones long defined all aspects of life — including in the workplace. In many ways, it still does.

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