Putting labor’s house in order: the Transport Workers Union and labor anti-Communism in Miami during the 1940s An essay by Alex Lichtenstein about how 'red-baiting' and anti-Communism effected a CIO union in Miami during the 1940s.
Images from the South-St. Paul CIO-United Packinghouse Workers ̓strike of 1948 Images from a CIO strike in the meatpacking industry in St. Paul, Minnesota. The strike dragged on…
“They teamed up with the police and the Klan:” Jack O’Dell on red baiting in the National Maritime Union Brief account by Jack O’Dell of the CIO's 'Operation Dixie', a strategy to organize…
“A square deal?”: the Michigan CIO debates the no-strike pledge Selections from minutes of a 1943 Michigan CIO convention, debating the 'no-strike pledge' during…
Politics journal Politics was a radical journal edited by Dwight Macdonald from 1944 to 1949. The journal published political and cultural criticism of current events in the 1940s, and had many noteworthy…
Introduction to L’ouvrier américain (1949) From Socialisme ou Barbarie no. 1 (1949), the introduction to The American Worker.
The Communist Party of the United States: from the Depression to World War II An overview of the American Communist Party from the time right before the Popular Front era until…
Standing fast: a novel - Harvey Swados Harvey Swados' fictional story of a group of socialists and their lives from the dawn of USA's involvement in World War II to the Kennedy…
Images from 1946 Rochester general strike Pictures from the 1946 Rochester, New York general strike, which happened in response to the mass firings of city workers attempting to organize…
Images from 1946 Oakland general strike Images from the 1946 Oakland general strike. Mostly taken from the University of California-Berkeley's online archive.
A CIO organizer in Alabama, 1941 Reports from an organizer involved in efforts to organize a Goodyear plant in Alabama in 1941.
The left and rape : why we should all be ashamed of the left’s role in covering up the rape of 2 million women. A blogpost from an ex-Socialist Workers Party (UK) member about the neglect of the…
