The consciousness of the workers of the whole world cannot grasp this fact; for the enemy is still very strong, the way is long, and the great work, the greatest of history, is unfinished; for the working class of the world needed Lenin as perhaps no one in the history of the world has yet been needed.
How shall we advance, shall we find the way, shall we not go astray? For Lenin, comrades, is no longer with us!
Lenin is no more, but Leninism endures. The immortal in Lenin, his doctrine, his work, his method, his example, lives in us, lives in the party that he founded, lives in the first workers’ state whose head he was and which he guided.
May the pain we feel, that stabs our harts each time we think that Lenin is no more, be for each of us an admonition, a warning, an appeal: Your responsibility is increased. Be worthy of the leader who trained you!
L.D. Trotsky
Remind yourself that past and future have no power over you. Only the present — and even that can be minimized. Just mark off its limits.
On this day, 21 January 1946, the largest strike in United States history took place when 750,000 steelworkers at over 1200 plants across 30 states went on strike.
It was part of a massive strike wave in the country in the wake of World War II. The first six months of 1946 were described by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics as “the most concentrated period of labor-management strife in the country’s history,” with just under three million workers walking out.
On February 18, around 550,000 steelworkers returned to work after their employers agreed to increase their pay by 18 ½ cents per hour. The other workers mostly remained out, until their employers also caved in to the pay demands. Steelworkers in Huntington, West Virginia, for example remained on strike until April 7.
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