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The Teamsters’ strike described in the Teamster Rebellion was led by Trotskyites, a renegade group of Marxist-Leninists. How radical do you think the strike was? Did it aim simply to achieve tangible, bread-and-butter goals, or did it aim for more far-reaching and drastic?

In the early 1930s, the Great Depression was in full swing. Businesses were cutting wages and laying off workers in order to maintain high profits. Workers faced sweatshop conditions, low wages, long hours, and the constant threat of being laid off. The conditions of the coal industry in Minneapolis were typical for the time. In the Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs; a member of the Communist League of America and one of the leaders of the 1934 strike describes his own situation: “We were just squeaking by when I was cut to forty-eight hours a week. It was a welcome physical relief since coal heavers had to work like mules, but there was also a two-dollar cut in weekly pay…. The thin flesh of mere......

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