Captain Swing was here! A short history of the 1830 Swing riots by Stuart Booth. Farm bosses would receive threatening letters from a fictional “Captain Swing”, and if…
The Tolpuddle martyrs, 1834 The history of the Tolpuddle martyrs: a group of six agricultural workers from Dorset, England who were sentenced to transportation to Australia…
The English Revolution, 1640 Christopher Hill's Marxist analysis of the English civil war and revolution in the 17th century, published in 1940.
Strategies for resistance under neoliberalism: lessons from the Zapatistas and the Landless Workers' Movement This essay examines the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and the Landless…
Review: Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism Loren Goldner's extensive review and analysis of Frank Bardacke. Trampling Out The…
Violence in the 1979 Imperial Valley Lettuce strike LA Times article from 1986 discussing the court hearings about violence deployed during the Imperial Valley lettuce strike 1979. The article is…
Lettuce Strike Apparently Succeeding Despite Odds Washington Post article from 5th February 1979 on the Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike
Bloody fight in lettuce fields Chicago Tribune article on from February 25th 1979 on the Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike.
Feb 26th 1979 report on the Imperial Valley lettuce strike Article published in the New York Times with the headlineLettuce Strike Crippling 40% of California Output
Account on the conditions leading up to the 1979 Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike An account by a farm worker on industrial background to the Imperial Valley California lettuce workers strike of 1979. Written for the National Ministry of Farm Workers.
1944-52: Solomon Islanders Establish Autonomus Village Movement In response to oppression by the British Empire the indigenous islanders turned to a Movement…
1600: Iroquois Women Gain Power to Veto War Account of the struggle of Iroquois women to stop frequent tribal conflict, by refusing sex and agricultural cultivation.
