Racial conflict and racial solidarity in the Alabama coal strike of 1894: new evidence for the Gutman-Hill debate - Alex Lichtenstein Alex Lichtenstein looks at the issue of race in an Alabama coal strike.
Rank-and-file rebellions and AFL interference in the affairs of national unions: the Gompers era An essay about the AFL and how they handled dissidents.
Organized labor and the black worker in the 1970s - Philip S. Foner An essay by Philip S. Foner about the relation between the AFL-CIO unions and Black Americans in the 1970s.
Documents of the Knights of Labor Letters from the South Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, revealing that the color line still remained a serious problem, and that the Knights did not succeed in breaking down the wall separating white and black. They also throw light on some of the special problems facing the KoL when it moved into the South.
Socialism reaffirmed - Maurice Brinton Some basic principles put together by Maurice Brinton in 1960 aimed at being ones around which revolutionary socialists - as distinct from bureaucratic state socialists - could regroup.
The guignol in history - Amadeo Bordiga In this 1953 article from the “Thread of Time” series, Amadeo Bordiga addresses the role of the great man or “man of destiny” in history, whose…
Workers' struggles in East Asia (November 2013) Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around East Asia during November 2013 and related resources. The most important stories…
