The Marxist Classes: The life of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Communist Party USA

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, labor and civil rights activist, feminist, and Communist, is the topic of this webinar presented by Dr. Mary Anne A. Trasciatti, author of the foreword of a new edition of Flynn’s My Life as a Political Prisoner.  Trasciatti discusses 1) why it was important that Flynn was a home-grown radical, 2) her relationship to movements, and 3) her central role in civil liberties movement. Image:  Paterson Strike, Daily Worker/People’s World Archives.  

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The Marxist Classes: The life of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn