1919: US steel strike While defeated by overwhelming police repression against pickets and union halls, the 1919 strike is significant in the history of organized…
USA: Auto-workers on nationwide strike at General Motors Thousands of United Auto Workers walked off the job at General Motors Corp. plants around the…
Atlanta cabbies in wildcat strike Cabbies at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport went on a five-hour wildcat strike Monday that ended when airport officials agreed to…
Reservation Politics: the Palestinian experience through the historical monocle of Native Americans - Melancholic Troglodytes An historical examination of the similarities and differences in the situations of…
The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape - Slavoj Žižek Philosopher/psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek examines the racist reaction to Hurricane Katrina, and argues there is a deeper logic at work, reflecting…
Ending a war, inventing a movement: Mayday 1971 After SDS committed political suicide, and after the Jackson and Kent State shootings, one of the largest mass direct actions in US history took…
1886: The Bay View Massacre The little known history of the massacre that occurred in Milwaukee, when 7,000 building workers and 5,000 Polish workers demanded the eight-hour…
1911-1970s: Unions and workers: limitations and possibilities, by Martin Glaberman Detroit auto-worker Martin Glaberman analyses the bureaucratisation and decline of the US trade…
1600-1980: Introduction to the United States - Noel Ignatiev Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist Political History, Noel Ignatiev
Jean Seberg: screen icon and Black Panther supporter Born in Iowa in 1938, Jean Seberg was an iconic actress of the 1960s and 70s whose support for radical politics led to her being hounded…
Danny Glover - lifelong activist Lethal Weapon actor Danny Glover has a long history of radicalism, from the opposition to the Vietnam war, through to the Panthers, the Iraq war…
Precarious and pissed off: Lessons from the Montpelier Downtown Workers' Union, 2003-2005 An account and analysis of the Vermont Workers' Center's innovative but ultimately…