The Presidio mutiny, 1968 - Randy Rowland
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 21 2014 12:53
A personal account by a participant of the Presidio mutiny, a sitdown protest of soldiers in military prison against the killing of an inmate during the Vietnam war. 27 mutineers then faced the death penalty, which triggered national outrage.
The Communist Party and socialists during the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 14 2014 21:58
A passage about radicals involvement in the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike, from The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions by Roger Keeran.
Oral history of Ernest DeMaio, head of the United Electrical Workers Midwest District 11
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jun 30 2014 00:43
Oral history of Ernest DeMaio, from his early radicalizing experience of the First Red Scare to facing repression and harassment during the Second Red Scare.
The ordeal of the Loyalty Test: Arthur Drayton
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jun 30 2014 00:05
An account from Arthur Drayton, a black postal worker and unionist who faced repression for his membership in a a Communist Party USA-affiliated insurance, mutual benefit and fraternal organization.
“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 New Brazil - Raúl Zibechi: reviewed by Levi Gahman
Brazil is now the poster child for neoliberal capitalism. Within its borders, vast inequities in wealth and access to social services still exist - in his latest work, Raúl Zibechi explains how and why this is the case...
Finance Ministry cleaners protest mass firings
Submitted by Thrasybulus on Jun 16 2014 10:33
Several hundred cleaners previously employed by Greece's Finance Ministry have been protesting their mass firing.
The Haywood-Mayer-Pettibone case - Louis Adamic
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 14 2014 18:48
Louis Adamic's excellent history of the trial and acquittal of three leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood and George Pettibone, for the murder of ex-Idaho state governor Frank Steunenberg in 1906.
The Mooney-Billings frame-up - Louis Adamic
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 14 2014 18:29
Louis Adamic's fascinating history of the framing of union organisers Tom Mooney and Warren Billings of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing, and the subsequent campaign for their release, written in 1931.
Battles in the Telluride mines, 1901-1903 - Louis Adamic
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 14 2014 18:08
A short history of the striking workers who took over the mines in Telluride, Colorado, and the illegal methods the state used to eventually defeat them.
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