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Working People Must Build Solidarity in Resistance
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
06 Apr 2020
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The general strike is “extremely promising” because “it is the surest way that workers have to protect their own health, since obviously the state and their employers are not interested in doing that,” said Peter Gelderloos, an anarchist activist now living in Spain who wrote an article on the global history of rent strikes.

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