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Nov 24, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Peter Cole
It’s just a few weeks after the most conservative Republican president in a generation convincingly won a second term, causing many to despair. Across the ocean from the United States, a country engaged in apartheid was condemned by most of the world’s people and nations, but the pariah nation remained loudly unrepentant and possessed a powerful ally in the White House.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Peter Cole
Above photo: Police confront workers ahead of the West Coast Waterfront Strike, in San Francisco, California, on May 8, 1934. Underwood Archives / Getty Images.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
portside.org | Peter Cole
How San Francisco Longshoremen Made Their Union a Powerhouse Published August 12, 2024 This interview was conducted for Organize the Unorganized, a podcast from the Center for Work & Democracy and Jacobin magazine about the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Subscribe to Jacobin Radio to listen to the series (and don’t forget to rate us five stars so we can reach more people). Interview by Benjamin Y.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Peter Cole
Interview by Benjamin Y. Fong Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University and the author of Dockworker Power: Race & Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press, 2018). In this interview, Cole and Jacobin’s Benjamin Y. Fong discussed the dedication and success of the longshore workers in the 1930s and ’40s in overcoming racial division on the docks.
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May 4, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Peter Cole
Above photo: Oakland longshore workers shut down their workplace and reminded us of the potential of organized labor. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Remembering When Dockworkers Shut Down The Ports On May Day. May Day — a legal holiday for workers in most countries — was born in Chicago. On May 1, 1886, workers shut down America’s greatest industry city, and other cities too, to demand the 8-hour workday.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
chicago.suntimes.com | Peter Cole
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?”Those disadvantages have persisted. Today, for instance, the wealth of the average white family is more than 20 times that of a black one. King’s solution was unionism.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
popularresistance.org | Peter Cole
Above photo: Pro-Palestinian activists, dockworkers, and students temporarily blocked access to the Port of Salerno in Italy to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Ivan Romano / Getty Images. Pro-Palestine “Block the Boat” actions, where dockworkers block the transport of arms to Israel, have proliferated in recent years. Recalling actions against apartheid South Africa, they’re an effective way for labor to oppose Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
portside.org | Peter Cole |Rafeef Ziadah |Katy Fox-Hodess
Dockworkers and Labor Activists Can Block the Transport of Arms to Israel Published November 27, 2023 As a humanitarian disaster ravages Gaza, activists around the world have taken a wide range of actions aimed at pressuring Israel, from mass marches and “die-ins” to blockades and sit-ins. Unions have also ramped up solidarity actions in a range of sectors.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Michael Laroque |Peter Cole |Indraneel S. Brahme |Thomas Z. Paull
Corresponding Author Peter A. Cole MD Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN, United States HealthPartners Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, Bloomington, Minnesota Correspondence Dr. Peter A.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
mideast-times.com | Peter Cole
Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas New York César ChelalaSince the start of the Gaza war, more than 200 hundred aid workers have been killed. As a result, the health situation of the civilian population, still reeling from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)’s attacks, has worsened considerably, since many aid operations have been cancelled.
