But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn; We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn That the union makes us strong. In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of atoms... If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich? - Page 202by G. A. Cohen - 2009 - 256 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Labor unions - 1925 - 738 pages
...gold; Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand- fold. We can bring to birth the new ivorld from the ashes of the old, For the Union makes us strong." ITTER class war is raging in Passaic, with the martial strains of this famous Wobbly song rising mightily... | |
| Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel - History - 1981 - 424 pages
...power greater than their hoarded gold. Greater than their mighty armies magnified a thousand fold; We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old, For the Union makes us strong. Solidarity Forever As we proofread the galleys for this volume, the international situation becomes... | |
| Gibbs M. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 308 pages
...power greater than their hoarded gold ; Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand fold, We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old, For the Union makes us strong. For much of the founding convention , debate focused on the role of political action versus direct... | |
| Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel - Comparative economics - 1991 - 172 pages
...Castoriadis In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold Greater than their mighty armies magnified a thousandfold; We can bring to birth a...the ashes of the old, For the Union makes us strong. — Solidarity Forever privilege. As the "Revolutions of 1989" have demonstrated, transitions between... | |
| Eric Arnesen - Business & Economics - 1994 - 384 pages
...dimension, a striving for fundamental social transformation embodied in the Wobblies' exhortation to "bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old." . . . The ideological content of the New Unionism was vague and eclectic, but the impulse was nonetheless... | |
| Gerald Allan Cohen - Philosophy - 1995 - 292 pages
...is struck in 'Solidarity Forever', which brings alt of the features together, and whose verses run as follows: When the union's inspiration through the...the ashes of the old. For the union makes us strong. should embrace socialism, because workers form the immense majority of the population. You can say... | |
| Staughton Lynd - Social Science - 1997 - 318 pages
...hands there is a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the power of armies multiplied a thousandfold, We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old, For our union [our solidarity] makes us strong. 2 The Webbs, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg In The Communist Manifesto,... | |
| Stanley Aronowitz - Labor movement - 1998 - 268 pages
...hoarded gold; Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth the new world from the ashes of the old, For the Union makes us strong. Solidarity forever ... — Ralph Chaplin Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction i 1.... | |
| Albert Vetere Lannon - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 216 pages
...hired through the union hall.38 The old IWW anthem was taking on new meaning: We can bring to birth the new world from the ashes of the old, for the Union makes us strong.39 A mass rally on May 5, 1937, adopted the rank and file committee's recommendations and founded... | |
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