Sentences with phrase «working class solidarity»

Coal miners and their powerful tradition of working class solidarity represented a danger to the political climate she was aiming to create.

Not exact matches

Foundations could partner with a church or nonprofit to subsidize «solidarity organizers,» who would live in working - class neighborhoods and perhaps even take working - class jobs.

He had exhausted working - class solidarity gestures and moved on to patriotic solidarity gestures.

The irony is that the priorities of reciprocal solidarity already align with the intuitions of the secular, working - class whites who were drawn to Donald Trump's rhetoric.

A politics of reciprocal solidarity can be a way to bring both working - class whites and a larger share of first - and second - generation wage - earners into a constructive nationalist politics.

For example, we did a whole issue about class of our quarterly magazine, and its been a central theme of our work on child poverty, inequality, taxation, solidarity.

However, whatever the relative importance of various intellectual influences, the party's initial electoral success was reliant on mass working - class consciousness and solidarity amongst its core voting block.

Howie is a socialist who believes self - organization, independent political action, and international solidarity by the working class and oppressed people for full political and economic democracy is the way to build a society of freedom, equality, solidarity, peace, and ecological sustainability.

This is a shame, because you'll find nowhere more infused with solidarity and rural working - class tradition than the beating line of a shoot or a meet of the Blencathra Foxhounds.

The former SSP leader has joined forces with fellow socialist breakaway and MSP Rosemary Byrne to create Solidarity: Scotland's Socialist Movement, which will fight for working class people, an independent Scotland and social justice.

But Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper will not be resigning just to demonstrate a commitment to working - class solidarity.

Solidarity: Connecting Sanders» Audience's Aspirations to Clear Working Class Political Alternatives

Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their Spanish writer - director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives: the solidarity but also the standoff between parent and child; the series of low - ceiling jobs; the alienation from what few social services still exist; the yearning but also the wariness awakened by new romantic prospects; and the suddenness with which poor choices, ambient prejudice, or adolescent disaffection lead to intractable enmeshments in the penal apparatus.

Loach and Laverty often find it hard to resist endings in which working - class characters teaming together in joyous solidarity prevail, sometimes comically, over the exploitative forces of conservatism and feral capitalism.

Dealing with themes of solidarity among the working class, The Wizard of Oz isn't a film about the black experience, but with just a little tinkering, it easily could be.

Warchus and Beresford have made an unashamed love letter to activism, to the working - class, and most importantly, the power of solidarity between the oppressed, making a strong case that the events it depicts were a major turning point for the gay rights movement in the U.K. (where gay marriage became law earlier this year, passed by a right - wing government no less).

De Kooning, never forgetting his working class roots in Rotterdam's docklands, felt a profound solidarity with artists who were looking in from the outside.

«Some of our so - called brothers and sisters in the trade union movement have abandoned solidarity with the working class and are instead throwing in with environmentalists who have co-opted the tribes in their effort to fight pipelines,» O'Sullivan wrote.

Law students who choose to stand in solidarity with the union were given the option to declare their classes to be taken as pass / fail by March 29 or make up the missed course work after the scheduled term, but they had to make the declaration by March 26, as exam time draws near.