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Background on the suppression of Guangdong Six

Probably the most detailed English background on the December 3 crackdown on Chinese labour activists so far, with updates by the translators.
 Déjacque

Prehistory of the Idea: Part Two

A chapter of a projected book,The Idea: Anarchist Communism Past, Present and Future.
do_proletariatu_polski_1914

'To the proletariat of Poland!' – joint proclamation of the SDKPiL, PPS-Left and the Bund from August 1914

On the eve of the First World War, the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland…
African-American washerwomen, 19th-century

Atlanta's washerwomen strike, 1881

A short history of the strike of overwhelmingly African-American women laundresses in Atlanta Georgia. Coming only shortly after the abolition of…
Unemployed domestic workers seek employment, New York 1937

The Bronx slave market, 1950 - Marvel Cooke

Fascinating series of reports and first person accounts of the markets in New York City where unemployed African-American women would be hired by…
Maria Koszutska

The Russian revolution and the international proletariat - Maria Koszutska

This collection of articles, published during August 1918 in the newspaper of the PPS-Left, while…

Deng Xiaoming’s criminal detention confirmed, number of criminally detained from "12/3 incident" rises to four

According to lawyers, it has been confirmed that Deng Xiaoming, staff member at…
Crooked bureaucrat: Linda Perks

Unison paid officials caught sabotaging leadership election

A whistleblower within Unison's London region has leaked an audio recording of a meeting of paid…
Cigar makers on sitdown strike, Detroit 1937

Sit-down strikes by women in 1937 - Ivan Greenberg

A short account of women workers' participation in the sit down strike wave which swept the US in 1937.
Mary Zuk addresses sit down strikers, 1937

1937 cigar industry strike

A history of the sit down strikes by predominantly Polish women workers in Detroit during the great depression: part of a national wave of sit…
Striking cigar workers march, 1937

Immigrant women beat cigar company bosses - Martha Grevatt

A short history of the wave of sitdown strikes by predominantly Polish women cigar makers in Detroit…
Detroit Woolworth's sitdown strikers

The Detroit Woolworth's sitdown strike, 1937 - Marc Norton

A short history of the sit-in strike of women workers at Woolworth's in Detroit, which shook the…
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