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President John F. Kennedy is shown a model for AIFLD’s Mexico City housing project in November 1963. Upon its completion the following year, the project was named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Housing Project in honor of the assassinated president. From left: AIFLD Social Projects director William Doherty Jr.; George Meany; Kennedy; and project supervisor Andrew Klay.

Labor's Reckoning: What We Can Learn From the Cold War History of the AFL-CIO

By Isabela Escalona | August 27, 2024

An interview with the author of ‘Blue-Collar Empire,’ a forthcoming book that uncovers the AFL-CIO’s Cold War-era involvement in undermining left-wing and anti-imperialist labor movements abroad.

Workers and local labor community come together to commemorate Bloody Friday in Minneapolis. On July 20, 1934, the Minneapolis police attacked and opened fire on picketers in the streets of the Warehouse District. Police shot 67 strikers and killed two, Henry Ness and John Belor.

The 90th Anniversary of the 1934 Truckers' Strike Honors Minneapolis' Militant Labor History [VIDEO]

John See in his office at the University of Minnesota.

An Interview with John See: Labor Historian and Video Innovator on Nearly 40 Years of Service to the Minnesota Labor Movement

Minnesota Women Labor Journalists Uplifted Working People for Decades

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