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Content about workers' struggles and events in the United States of America.

National Struggle And Class Struggle In Puerto Rico: Lessons for Anarchists by Mike Staudenmaier

A history of national and class struggles in Puerto Rico, from the time of the Spanish colonizers to the Nationalist uprisings and armed clandestine groups until the recent lack of radicalism. We do not agree with this article but reproduce it for reference.

In the past 150 years, assertions of national identity and class identity have transformed the world in which we live, changing the self-understanding, motivations, and actions of billions of human beings.

California homeless hold demonstration to demand accomodations

On July 2, 2009, hundreds of homeless Californians marched on the Sacramento Town Hall to demand "safe ground".

It has been about three months since city officials shut down a large "tent city" occupied by Sacramento's homeless people.

Now, some of the tent city's residents say they feel like refugees, with no place to go. They staged a loud demonstration Wednesday, in hopes of pressuring Sacramento officials to find them a new place to camp.

'Where Am I Supposed To Live?'

Roda, Maria 1877-19???

A short biography of Maria Roda, a fierce champion of women's liberation and anarchism, active in Italy, France and the United States.

“Who knows poverty more than woman?” Maria Roda

Forming a nation: the free black settlement at Fort Mose

Historian Adam Wasserman's account of Fort Mose, the first free black settlement established in the United States.

This article is an extract from Wasserman's A People's History of Florida.

In 1693, King Charles the Second of Spain pronounced an important edict declaring freedom for fugitive slaves seeking refuge in St. Augustine:

The 1810 West Florida Annexation Scheme

Historian Adam Wasserman's account of the West Florida annexation plot of 1810, a U.S. imperialist covert operation designed to wrest control of West Florida from Spain.

“The persistent desire of the United States to possess the Floridas, between 1801 and 1819, amounted almost to a disease, corrupting the moral sense of each succeeding administration.” 1

- Historian Kendrick C. Babcock summing up U.S. attempts to annex East and West Florida in the first two decades of the 19th century.

The "Negro Fort" massacre

Historian Adam Wasserman's account of Andrew Jackson's excursion into Spanish Florida to destroy the "Negro Fort" situated on the mouth of the Appalachicola River in Florida. The "Negro Fort" was a free black settlement that served as a rendezvous for fugitive slaves from the Southern states.

This article is an excerpt of Wasserman's A People's History of Florida.