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GEW and the Nazi past: a book and the debate over the union’s history

Saskia Müller and Benjamin Ortmeyer’s book examines the National Socialist Teachers’ League’s role in the Nazi system. Its publication prompted an open letter and a broad debate about the GEW’s Nazi legacy, including calls to explain publicly the renaming of the Max Traeger Foundation.

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26 Oct 2026
Analysis

GEW and the Nazi past: a book and the debate over the union’s history

Saskia Müller and Benjamin Ortmeyer’s book examines the National Socialist Teachers’ League’s role in the Nazi system. Its publication prompted an open letter and a broad debate about the GEW’s Nazi legacy, including calls to explain publicly the renaming of the Max Traeger Foundation.

Author: Mag Source: labournet.de
Mag Germany Education Labor history
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26 Oct 2026
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The Workers’ Councils of 1956

“What is our foremost task today? For the workers’ councils to take actual power in every factory and workplace, because, in social terms, the workers’ council is entitled to all the rights of an owner. Only now have the factories, banks, and land truly become theirs. Let us take great care of them…

Author: Feitl István Source: merce.hu
István Feitl Hungary Labor history Cooperatives and worker self-management
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21 Oct 2026
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Kim Gyeong-bong: the story of a survivor of the Chosei mine disaster

Hiroko Shimizu reviews Moon Young-sook’s The Dark Sea, based on the testimony of Kim Gyeong-bong, a Korean survivor of the 1942 Chosei mine flooding in Japan. The book explores forced labour, colonial violence and the need to preserve the memory of this history.

Author: Hiroko Shimizu Source: labornetjp2.org
Hiroko Shimizu Korea Japan Mining Industry
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11 Oct 2026
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Mary Anne Trasciatti on her new book, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

In Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution (2025), historian Mary Anne Trasciatti traces Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s path to becoming one of the most important labor radicals in US history, taking part in almost every major left campaign of the first half of the twentieth cen…

Author: Mary Anne Trasciatti, Rosemary Feurer Source: lawcha.org
Mary Anne Trasciatti Rosemary Feurer United States IWW
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13 Sep 2026
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The Role and Limitations of a Research Handbook in Historiography

NTRODUCTION Sven Lindqvist’s book *Gräv där du står* (Dig Where You Stand), written in Sweden in 1978, was published in Turkish nearly half a century later. It had also taken 45 years for the English translation, *Dig Where You Stand*, to be published. Lindqvist offers a practical handbook for wor…

Author: Aziz Çelik Source: academia.edu
Aziz Çelik Turkey Labor history Workers’ inquiry
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