Teamsters Raid On IWW Drive Fails An article about an attempted Teamster raid on an IWW campaign in New York. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (December 2005).
The Bronx slave market, 1950 - Marvel Cooke Fascinating series of reports and first person accounts of the markets in New York City where unemployed African-American women would be hired by…
Necessary steps in tough economic times: New York students take to the streets in the wake of Occupy A piece by Marianne LeNabat that takes us through an overview of how students in…
Withered aristocracy #2 - heavy construction and critical faculties An attempt at an explanation for the long absence of the Withered Aristocracy blog.
Sidney Solomon, in his own words A short autobiography of Sidney Solomon long-time anarchist and painter who lived in New York. Member of Vanguard Group, the New Trends Group and…
A memoir: some anarchist activities in New York in the thirties and forties - Clara Freedman Solomon A lookback at the efforts of anarchists in New York City during The Great…
Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: flower power won't stop fascist power Subtitled "the story of a small, underground 1960s revolutionary group in New York City", this is a…
New York City municipal workers' strike, 1971 - Steven Johns A short history of a two-day strike by thousands of New York city workers in pursuit of a pension…
Fragments: a memoir - Sam Dolgoff A 1986 memoir by Russian-born American anarcho-syndicalist Sam Dolgoff (1902-1990) with lots of interesting information about the anarchist…
The killing of Eric Garner and the failure of social justice unionism Rather than providing a strategy for fighting racism, social justice unionism has led some union…
Uprising of 20,000 - Tony Michels A short history of a massive general strike of 20,000, mostly female and Jewish, garment workers which lasted 11 weeks and won significant…
Withered aristocracy #1 - by way of introduction An introduction to what will hopefully be an intermittent series of musing on life and labor within the New York City building trades and…