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Toni Gilpin

@tonigilpin.bsky.social

Labor Historian, writer. Loyal to Chicago but longing for Paris. Author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor & Class War in the American Heartland www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1383-t…

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Toni Gilpin @tonigilpin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"He is not to be saluted. He is no longer in command." "Job just didn't work out, huh?" Couldn't resist posting this on this momentous occasion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGW...

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The Great Escape (11/11) Movie CLIP - The Cooler King Returns (1963) HD

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Toni Gilpin @tonigilpin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

How the Chicago-based, Communist Party-associated Farm Equipment Workers union paid homage, on May Day 1938, to Chicago's anarchist martyrs of 1886

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Toni Gilpin @tonigilpin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Headlines, May 1 1886.

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prince egregious, heir apparent @sonofahurricane.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Annual May Day plug for you to read many of the books on this list but specifically The Long Deep Grudge, a book I cannot and will not shut up about, which has deeply influenced my understanding of unions and what is possible in them.

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Toni Gilpin @tonigilpin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I'm genuinely moved that my book has touched the "rust belt heart" of @mattexx.bsky.social . Made my day -- thanks!

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Toni Gilpin @tonigilpin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Terrific piece providing both a razor-sharp takedown of Isserman's spurious CP history & a valuable overview of the communist organizing in the 20th century, underscoring the centrality of antiracism to those efforts. And thanks @blbalthaser.bsky.social for the shout-out to The Long Deep Grudge!

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