Chicago
Fight or Walk: The Chicago transit fare strike
A very interesting history and analysis of attempts in Chicago to launch a fare strike against increases in fares.
Fight or Walk FAQ, 2004
Frequently asked questions about the campaign against bus fare hikes in Chicago.
Doomsday! Chicago fare strike leaflet, 2005
Detailed leaflet with information about resistance to fare hikes in Chicago buses.
They aren't just attacking transit leaflet, 2004
Leaflet of the Fight or Walk campaign against bus fare rises, from late 2004 or early 2005.
CTA - The facts leaflet, 2004
Leaflet from the Fight or Walk campaign agitating for resistance to bus fare rises in Chicago.
1886: The Haymarket Martyrs and Mayday
The history of the world holiday on the 1st May - Mayday, held in commemoration of four anarchists executed for struggling for an 8-hour day.
Originally a pagan holiday, the roots of the modern Mayday bank holiday are in the fight for the eight-hour working day in Chicago in 1886, and the subsequent execution of innocent anarchist trade unionists.
1894: The Pullman railway strike
Howard Zinn on the history of the militant struggle of workers at the Pullman railway car company in Chicago against wage cuts and sackings.
Coming two years after the massive Homstead steel strike, in June 1894, workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company walked out.
Chicago, US: 10,000 march for immigrant rights
Last Saturday downtown Chicago was paralysed by tens of thousands of people marching for immigrants' rights. Joshua Hoyt examines this growing movement.
On Friday, March 10, 2006 Chicago’s downtown was paralysed by an immigrant march estimated at more than 100,000 people.
Parsons, Lucy, 1853-1942
A biography of anarchist labour organiser and wife of Haymarket Martyr Albert Parsons, Lucy Parsons.
Little is known about the early life of Lucy Parsons. She claimed to have been born the daughter of a Mexican women, Marie del Gather and John Waller, a Creek Indian, and orphaned at age three. From there she said she was raised on a ranch in Texas by her maternal uncle. However, later research has pointed to the possibility that she was a slave in Texas.
Radical union's picket wins worker back unpaid wages
Members of the Chicago General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World labour union (IWW) last week picketted and called for a boycott of the Ideal Hand Car Wash in Chicago’s Albany Park neighbourhood.
The managers and owners of the business refused to pay Neil Rysdahl, a longtime member of the IWW, the $227.50 he was owed for over 45 hours of work he preformed for them.
