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Sunday, June 05, 2005

CAN WORKERS CHANGE THE WORLD?

Wednesday, June 8th
Bangs Center, Amherst
The Glass Room
7PM

Join the Tom Mooney Local of the Socialist Party for a discussion on the role of workers in building a new society based on cooperation and equality. Our discussion will be based on an article by Michael D. Yates, “Can Workers Change the World?” which appeared in Monthly Review, March 2004.

Online at http://www.monthlyreview.org/0304yates.htm

Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was for many years professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is author of Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs: Employment and Unemployment in the United States (1994), Why Unions Matter (1998), and Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global System (2004), all published by Monthly Review Press.

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