Arturo Giovannitti's 'Sermon from the Commons' declares: 'Think, dare, do, rebel, fight, arise... There is no destiny that the will of men cannot break.'
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A labor-history portrait where poetry serves as both witness and weapon.
Arturo Giovinetti's story gives Labor History Today a sharp angle on the Lawrence textile strike: an Italian immigrant, poet, socialist, and labor organizer whose words made him a target.
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