Industrial Pioneer The Industrial Pioneer was a monthly publication of the Industrial Workers of the World. It was published in Chicago by the general executive…
“You understand we are radical”: the United Mine Workers of America, District 18 and The One Big Union, 1919-1920 The story of the United Mine Workers of America District 18 and their path into, and then later out of, the radical One Big Union.
Against the IWW series part 3: an infantile disorder The third in Recomposition's series at looking at some of the arguments against the IWW.
Ghosts of Leninist past: a review of The Roots of American Communism A review and some comments from Juan Conatz on Theodore Draper’s history of the various factions…
The roots of American communism - Theodore Draper Theodore Draper's incredibly detailed book about the many groups, factions and individuals that would form what became the Communist Party USA…
Strike- Sergei Eisenstein Eisensteins first film depicting working conditions and repression in Tsarist Russia.
KKK and IWW wage drawn battle in Greenville, 1924 A 1924 article from the Portland Press Herald about conflict between the Industrial Workers of the World and the the Ku Klux Klan.
Video footage of Pyotr Kropotkin's funeral Video footage of Pyotr Kropotkin's funeral which took place from 10th to 13th February, 1921. It was documented by 'Section of social chronicles…
Futility of Fosterism A critique of the labor politics of William Z. Foster and the Communist Party of America's Trade Union Education League (TUEL). Author Ben Legare…
The One Big Union of Canada A 1920 article describing conflict within the One Big Union in Canada over industrial vs. regional organization.
Rebel Girls and Union Maids: the woman question in the journals of the AFL and IWW, 1905-1920 An article by Ann Schofield which contrasts the differences and examines the…
