- Home
- Farrell Dobbs
- Karl Marx
Farrell Dobbs
Farrell Dobbs (1907–1983) was national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party from 1953 to 1972 and the SWP presidential candidate four times. In 1934 he emerged from the ranks of the Teamsters as a central leader of battles that transformed the union movement during the Great Depression. He was a...
Farrell Dobbs (1907–1983) was national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party from 1953 to 1972 and the SWP presidential candidate four times. In 1934 he emerged from the ranks of the Teamsters as a central leader of battles that transformed the union movement during the Great Depression. He was a leader of the strikes that year that made Minneapolis a union town and later of the organizing drives that brought a quarter million over-the-road truck drivers into the Teamsters union across the Midwest and Mid-South.
During World War II, Dobbs and other central SWP leaders organizing labor opposition to Washington’s war aims were railroaded to federal prison by the US imperialist rulers.
He is the author of the series on the Teamster battles of the 1930s (four-volumes, 1972–77) and Revolutionary Continuity: Marxist Leadership in the U.S. (two volumes, 1980–83). Other works include:
Tribunes of the People and the Trade Unions (2019, coauthor)
50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington's Political Police and the American Working Class (2014, coauthor)
Selected Articles on the Labor Movement (1983)
Counter-Mobilization: A Strategy to Fight Racist and Fascist Attacks (1976)
The Structure and Organizational Principles of the Socialist Workers Party (1971)
Filter Products
Language
Authors
- Dave Prince
- Elizabeth Stone
- Farrell Dobbs
- George Breitman
- George Novack
- Harry Braverman
- Jack Barnes
- James P Cannon
- Jean Tussey
- Karl Marx
- Larry Seigle
- Leon Trotsky
- Mary-Alice Waters
- Steve Clark
- VI Lenin
Subjects
- Black liberation
- Education for Socialists bulletins
- Fascism and how to fight it
- Jewish Question and Anti-Semitism
- Lenin and the Communist International
- Palestine Israel and the Middle East
- Revolutionary politics of the working class
- Russia Eastern Europe and Balkans
- The materialist world view
- Trade unions: past present and future
- US politics and history
- Writings of Marx and Engels