"Subterranean Fire" Book Study

Start: 2023-01-08 19:00:00 UTC Pacific Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-08:00)

End: 2023-02-05 20:30:00 UTC Pacific Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-08:00)

Event Type: Virtual
A virtual link will be communicated before the event.

Host contact info jamie.partridge1@gmail.com

Subterranean Fire (Updated Edition)

A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States

by Sharon Smith

PAPERBACK, 504 PAGES

July 2018

$18.00 $10.80 (40% off, limited offer)

Order from Haymarket Books

(or Amazon for $18, paper back; $13 kindle)

A group book study

for members of Portland DSA and fellow travelers.

Five Sundays, 7-8:30pm, Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29 & Feb. 5

(zoom)

Sponsored by the Bread and Roses Caucus of Portland DSA

This revised and updated edition of Sharon Smith’s accessible, critical history of the US labor movement examines the hidden radical history of workers’ resistance from the nineteenth century to the present (2018).

TABLE OF CONTENTS https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1l-EA3ui47Kbd69EIhnF0nqYdDuPFUqkI

STUDY QUESTIONS

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JnkajtgGUMMLL6vPEWbzPQ5RbV9IgWmOKgbYPtvyvas/edit

EPUB

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1l-EA3ui47Kbd69EIhnF0nqYdDuPFUqkI

"If you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement — the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery, the wage slaves, expect salvation -- if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out." August Spies, Haymarket martyr, speech at trial, Oct. 7, 1886

Reviews

"There is no better time than the present for an updated edition of Subterranean Fire, as such a fire is clearly burning brighter than it has in decades, and yet so many people do not know how to connect the struggles of today to those of the past. Sharon Smith brings that history to life once again, blasting through the myths of the working class that Trump-era narratives cling to in order to connect us once again to the possibility of building broad solidarity."
-Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

"A veteran worker-intellectual brilliantly addresses the crisis of the labor movement, skewering those who believe that renewal can come from the top down, and encouraging those who are fighting to rebuild it from the bottom up."
- Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

Kindle edition: Intro and Part 1 - https://www.amazon.com/Subterranean-Fire-Updated-Working-Class-Radicalism/dp/1608469174/?asin=B07CSH4PGC&revisionId=b3cfb179&format=1&depth=1

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