We are the heirs to the Tulsa Outrage An article by a member of the restablished Tulsa IWW about the Tulsa Outrage, an incident in 1917 in which Wobblies were tarred and feathered by…
Mr Block comic Mr. Block, who has no first name, was created November 7, 1912 by Ernest Riebe, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Block appeared that day in the Spokane newspaper…
Helen Keller: why I became an IWW An Interview, written by Barbara Bindley, New York Tribune, January 15, 1916.
The Voice of the People newspaper Voice of the People was the new name of the Lumberjack the Wobbly Weekly covering New Orleans and the surrounding area.
The Lumberjack newspaper An archive of a Wobbly Weekly Newspaper covering New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana and focussing (at first) on the Lumberjacks of which it was…
Direct Action journal Direct Action was published by the Industrial Workers of the World Australian Administration. It printed 135 issues between January 1914 and…
Images from the 1917 Bisbee deportation Images from the 1917 Bisbee deportation, where an armed, anti-union 'Citizen's Protective League', in alliance with law enforcement, forced…
A martyr to his cause: the scenario of the first labor film in the United States The background and script to A Martyr to His Cause, the first labor film, made in 1911 in defense of the McNamara brothers,who were accused of bombing the Los Angeles Times during a labor dispute.
“You understand we are radical”: the United Mine Workers of America, District 18 and The One Big Union, 1919-1920 The story of the United Mine Workers of America District 18 and their path into, and then later out of, the radical One Big Union.
Ghosts of Leninist past: a review of The Roots of American Communism A review and some comments from Juan Conatz on Theodore Draper’s history of the various factions…
The roots of American communism - Theodore Draper Theodore Draper's incredibly detailed book about the many groups, factions and individuals that would form what became the Communist Party USA…
Great October in the Ukraine A short piece on the events in the Ukraine during the October Revolution in 1917.