USA
Content about workers' struggles and events in the United States of America.
Progress & Nuclear Power - Fredy Perlman
The Following text first appeared in a special anti-nuclear issue of Fifth Estate magazine on April 8, 1979. It was written earlier in that year just after an accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in eastern Pennsylavania. As news of the accident spread, official messages insisted, "There is no need to overreact, the situation is stable, the leaders have everything under control," but eventually people living near the plant had to be evacuated. Here Fredy reminds us how the original inhabitants of this region were duped and destroyed by the platitudes, promises and police that always accompany Capital.
Fragile prosperity? Fragile social peace? Notes on the US
Collective Action Notes analyse the changing face of work and resistance to work in the US in the latter half of the 20th century, focusing in particular on the auto industry and prison labour.
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world"
- Schopenhauer in "Studies In Pessimism"
Parsons on the 8 hour Day
Albert R. Parsons, Haymarket Martyr and anarchist on the movement for an eight-hour working day in March, 1886.
State of the Unions: Recent US Labour Struggles in Perspective
In the USA, the recent resurgence of workplace struggles and their mediation through unions indicate a possible future for the UK and Europe: will social democracy be reborn from its ashes, perhaps in a more radical form, through the initiative of rank-and-file militants?
Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields -William Cleaver
A little blow-out don't hurt nothin'.
A coal miner ain't nobody until he goes on strike,
then everybody's looking at him.
Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields
William Cleaver
Throwing away the ladder: the universities in the crisis - George Caffentzis
George Caffentzis' article on the development of class struggle in American universities since 1960.
Throwing Away The Ladder: The Universities In The Crisis
George Caffentzis
Levine, Philip, 1928-today
A short biography and information about the politics of American anarchist poet, Philip Levine.
Philip Levine was born in the industrial city of Detroit to parents of Russian Jewish origin in 1928. Detroit was the home of Father Coughlin, a notorious anti-Semitic Catholic priest who broadcast on the radio every Sunday. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence fighting people who wanted to beat him up because he was Jewish.
MacQueen, William 'Billy', 1875-1908
A short biography of English anarchist William "Billy" MacQueen who was active in Leeds until emigrating to the US.
William 'Billy' MacQueen
Born 14 January 1875 – UK, died 1908 - UK
"Tall, energetic and a good speaker"- Julius Seltzer in Anarchist Voices, Paul Avrich (ed.)
Mowbray, Charles Wilfred, 185?-1910
A short biography of tailor Charles Mowbray, who was possibly the first anarchist-communist in Britain. He was active in London, Norwich and the US.
Charles Wilfred Mowbray
Born 1850s – Durham, UK, died December 1910 – Bridlington, UK
Dolgoff, Sam, 1902-1990
An obituary and short biography of Russian-American labour organiser and anarcho-syndicalist Sam Dolgoff.
Sam Dolgoff, my old friend who died last week, spoke from sidewalk soapboxes and in union meeting halls for more than 60 years, and during all that time, what caught everyone's attention was his tough cocky style, half New York, half Joe Hill. Flames of mockery and indignation danced above his head.
