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The making of an organizer: A history and analysis of the Chicago Couriers Union 2003-2006

Submitted by wojtek on Jul 24 2015 10:27

A personal account of an organiser's time in the Chicago Couriers Union (CCU)

Young Patriots and Panthers: A story of white anti-racism

Submitted by wojtek on Jul 19 2015 01:15
William 'Preacherman' Fesperman, Young Patriots leader.

A brief history of the collaboration between the Black Panthers and its white counterpart Young Patriot Organisation in Chicago.

Red Chicago: American Communism at its grassroots, 1928-35 - Randi Storch

Submitted by Anonymous on May 26 2015 02:17

A book by Randi Storch about the Communist Party USA in Chicago during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Chicago Couriers Union: a lesson for IWW solidarity union organizers

Arrow messengers during a work stoppage in 2005. (Source: Industrial Worker)

An in-depth article by Colin Bossen, about the IWW affiliated Chicago Couriers Union, which modeled itself off of a conception of 'solidarity unionism'.

“The man . . . died on my lap”: one women recalls the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jun 29 2014 23:30

The testimony of Lupe Marshall to a U.S. Senate committee on the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, a day in which police opened fire on strikers.

1917 Raids on the Socialist Party and the IWW

Submitted by Roughneck Wobbl... on Mar 28 2014 08:38
IWW HQ in Chicago, 1917

An article in the International Socialist Review from October 1917 about the federal raids on the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World the month before.

The Pullman strike, 1894 - Jeremy Brecher

Submitted by Steven. on Jun 23 2013 17:34
Striking railway workers confront the National Guard in Chicago, 1894

Jeremy Brecher's excellent history of the massive but ultimately unsuccessful boycott and strike by the American Railway Union led by Eugene Debs against the tyrannical Pullman Palace Car Company.

The newspapers of the Young Lords Organization

Y.L.O. Number 2, May 1969, cover

Attached are digital copies of nearly all the newspapers published by the Young Lords Organization in Chicago and Milwaukee between 1969-71. We do not agree with much of the politics of the newspapers, but reproduce them for reference.

Towards a new labor movement (principles of left communism) - For the Workers' Opposition

A manifesto written and presented in Spring 1981 by For the Workers' Opposition, a small group of anarchists and council communists from Chicago, IL inspired by the German/Dutch communist left.

On the Chicago Teachers Union strike

The following is from a Chicago member of First of May Anarchist Alliance. It is an overview of the situation and was drafted over the weekend in the lead up to the strike that has started September 10, 2012.