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This book, written by the leader of the 1934 Teamsters strikes, and the man who organized the first national organizing drive of over-the-road truckers, Farrell Dobbs, outlines the real life struggle of the Minneapolis Teamsters to maintain their union and build others. Politics meant not supporting Democratic and Republican "friends of labor," but fighting for independent working class candidates and a labor party. Politics meant the union reaching out to align itself with the unemployed, with women fighting for their rights, and with the small farmers.

This book is a blueprint of the kind of unions we need, unions where the working membership has taken them back from the bureaucrats, and use them as weapons not only in the struggle of the workers who belong, but all the oppressed, unions that will be key to the struggle to wrest power from the rich and put it in the hands of the workers and the farmers.

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