The forgotten martyrs of Orangeburg - Monica Moorehead
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 26 2015 17:41
A short account of the police massacre of three black students demonstrating against a segregated bowling alley in South Carolina in 1968.
The Christmas Eve Calumet massacre, 1913
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 22 2014 13:32
A short history of the biggest mass murder in Michigan history: the massacre of 73 people, mostly the children of striking miners at a Christmas party on Christmas Eve in 1913.
November 15: Class war, memory war! - Proletarios Revolucionarios
Translated text from Proletarios Revolucionarios (“Revolutionary Proletarians”) from Ecuador, about the memory of the 15 November workers' uprising in Guayaquil in 1922, which was crushed by the state.
Iguala: state crime, class crime
Submitted by ubat on Nov 24 2014 22:31
What kind of “order” demands that 43 people vanish? They were killed because they defy the fundamental politics of the state regarding education and social issues. In the end all of Mexico knows it.
The No Gun Ri massacre, 1950
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 27 2014 10:26
A short history of one of the biggest mass killings of civilians by US ground troops, the No Gun Ri massacre, which took place during the Korean war on 26 July, 1950.
The Slocum massacre, 1910
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 30 2014 09:00
On July 29, 1910, citizens in the small, predominately African American town of Slocum, Texas were massacred in an act of terror designed to maintain economic white supremacy.
“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.
The Makhnos of memory: Mennonite and Makhnovist narratives of the civil war in Ukraine (1917-1921) - Sean David Patterson
Submitted by pin on Jun 14 2014 16:34
A really interesting Masters thesis on the relationship between Mennonites and Makhnovists in southern Ukraine during the Russian Civil War through the historical narratives found in each group’s literature.
The politics of genocide - Edward Herman and David Peterson
Herman and Peterson review the Western media's response to several different bloodbaths and criticize how the characterization, language, and ultimately policy responses are shaped by the narratives drafted in support of U.S. client states and agents. We do not necessarily agree with all of it but reproduce it for reference.
The US miners' strikes, 1919-1922 - Jeremy Brecher
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 22 2013 17:34
Jeremy Brecher's account of the strike wave in American mines from 1919 to 1922, where coalminers fought the bosses, the government and even the unions often pitched battles involving guns, dynamite and even a makeshift air force.
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