The full text of Howard Zinn's superb people's history of the United States, spanning over 500 years from Columbus's "discovery" of America in 1492 to the Clinton presidency in 1996.
This extensive work is available online thanks to History Is A Weapon, who OCRed the text, though we heartily recommend our readers to buy a hard copy. libcom.org have made a small number of minor corrections.
The site of the Dhaka factory collapse is now cleared; new concessions and reforms are announced. Some further reflections...
A short history of the brutal suppression of a strike by Russian gold miners protesting low wages and inhumane working conditions in 1912.
Some updates on a recent IWW campaign in Minneapolis, in which 5 workers were fired for organizing.
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