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The Stansbury Forum is a website for discussion by writers, activists and scholars on the topics that Jeff focused his life on: labor, politics, immigration, the environment, and world affairs.

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Peter Olney

Peter Olney is retired Organizing Director of the ILWU. He has been a labor organizer for 50 years working for multiple unions before landing at the ILWU in 1997. For three years he was the Associate Director of the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California. With co-editor Glenn Perušek they have edited Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr and available now from PM Press. Peter B. Olney Papers can be read at Robert S. Cox Special Collections & University Archives Research Center,

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April 2, 2017

With the U.S. Working Class Under Attack… Unions Can Reclaim May Day in Solidarity with Immigrant Workers

February 5, 2017

Resistance to Trump will separate progressives from neoliberals

December 27, 2016

Go Red! – Thoughts on the Labor Movement in the age of Trump – Response to Fletcher and Wing – Portside December 5, 2016

November 20, 2016

Why did Trump win? And what’s next for labor in the US

August 21, 2016

The Fight for $15 and a Union – A movement in the making?

August 14, 2016

Our Revolution is just getting started

June 27, 2016

Verizon Strike Shows Effectiveness of Strike Tactic

May 15, 2016

Lotta di Classe o Lotta di Generazione?!*

May 4, 2016

Italia: McDonald’s and Starbucks??

January 28, 2016

Olney Odyssey #18: Minding the Morgue

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This site is operated by two friends, Peter Olney and Robert Gumpert, introduced to each other by Jeff Stansbury. We thank the family, Gretzel Stansbury, Kevin Stansbury and Gwendolyn Stansbury for allowing us to run the site in his memory.

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