The Stockade Stood Burning: rebellion and the convict lease in Tennessee’s coalfields, 1891-1895
Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners and politicians of that
state. When the companies tried to intimidate their workers by bringing in convict labor to take over their jobs, the workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains bound for Nashville and Knoxville and places far away...The Tennessee convict war was one of the largest insurrections in American working-class history. And yet, unfolding at exactly the same time as the more publicized labor wars in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, it was largely ignored.
The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods
Investigation by Russell Marroon Schoatz into the methods of organisation used by maroons in Suriname and Jamaica, and the conflict between hierarchical and decentralised forms of organisation in the Haitian revolution.
Japan's wartime use of colonial labour: Taiwan and Korea (1937-45)
Submitted by Reddebrek on May 31 2017 16:46
A thesis detailing the extent of the exploitation of colonial labourers of Taiwanese and Korean origin as Japan mobilised for war, the conditions of the workers and their resistance.
The British camps
Submitted by Steven. on May 10 2017 09:18
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
Black Reconstruction in America: W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois's massive essay about the Reconstruction period in the aftermath of the US Civil War. Du Bois argues that the period represented an potential revolutionary moment in which the southern black population played an active and crucial role.
1857: Brazilian Slaves Strike Against ID Tags
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 18 2017 18:13
In 1857 a mix of slaves and free black labourers struck to resist an ID tag system and tax on their trade.
1733: The Slave Rebellion of St.John
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 15 2017 23:48
The island of St.John was a Danish colony, in 1733 a group of Akwamu slaves rebelled and successfully captured the island and held it for several months. However their plan was to replace the Danish as masters of the island and to keep the non Akwamu Africans as slaves. As a result many slaves actively sided with the colonial powers that eventually defeated the Akwamu.
The German coast uprising of 1811
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 8 2017 16:30
A short history of possibly the largest slave uprising in the United States, in Louisiana in 1811, written by Rhae Lynn Barnes.
State of the Union: Marx and America’s Unfinished Revolution – Robin Blackburn
Submitted by Craftwork on Nov 25 2016 19:30
Robin Blackburn on the failure of post-Civil War attempts to extend egalitarian impulses across race lines and factory floors, amid the sharpening class struggles of the Gilded Age. From New Left Review #61, January-February 2010.
