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Question -

1) Discuss the political significance of the slogan "occupy-resist-produce." (The Take).

2) Discuss the political significance of the slogan "our dreams don't fit on your ballots." (The Take).

3) Discuss the Brukman workers and the recovered factories movement. Who and what are they and why are they significant? (The Take).

4) Identify and discuss the significance of the IWW and CIO (Smith).

5) Identify and discuss the historical significance of the Flint, Michigan sit-down strike of 1937; include a discussion of the role of the Women's Emergency Brigade. Your answer should provide a definition of the sit-down strike. Why does Sharon Smith call the Flint Sit-down Strike "the strike of the century"? (Smith, Film: With Babies and Banners).

6) What were the Communist contributions to the labor movement, and how did the Communist Party change after WW2? (Smith).

7) Define and discuss the significance of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 (Smith).

8) Define and discuss union bureaucracy/ business unionism (Smith).

9) Define and discuss neo-liberalism; what are the economic policies of neoliberal doctrine and which economic class has imposed neo-liberal economic policies on societies and for what purpose? (Smith)

10) Identify and discuss the Marxist criticisms of socialism and the failures of the 20th century communist revolutions as per lecture and the two handouts on the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union. Explain the differences between capitalism, socialism, and communism. Explain the concept of a "transitional" society and identify the contradictions that can make it implode from within.