1930s Quote by Michael Parenti

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions…

— John T. Flynn

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually…

— John T. Flynn

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so…

— Jack Kirby

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always…

— Nelson Mandela

Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they…

— Jack Kirby

When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for…

— Kshama Sawant

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

— Noam Chomsky

Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the…

— Sharan Burrow

...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be…

— Karl Marx

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices…

— Henry Giroux

I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners' strike, and the Cold War was going…

— Maxine Peake

It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That…

— Chrystia Freeland