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This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of
Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the
interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda
Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the
International of Seamen and Harbour Workers as well as their
agitation and propaganda centres, the International Harbour Bureaus
and the International Seamen's Clubs. The book scrutinizes their
solidarity campaigns in support of local and national strikes as
well as on their agitation against discrimination, segregation and
racism within the unions, their demands to organize non-white
maritime transport workers, and their calls for engagement in
anti-fascist, anti-war and anti-imperialist actions.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1991.
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