The Occupation of Alcatraz
Submitted by Reddebrek on Mar 15 2017 19:27
A history of the occupation of Alcatraz island by the Group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) a coalition of native American activists and documentation published to explain the occupation.
1912: The San Diego free speech fight
Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 19 2017 19:56
A history of the most violent of the Free Speech Fights. A combination of police brutality and vigilante terror was unleashed against the IWW and the workers of San Diego, including torture and murder.
1992-96: Asian Immigrant Garment Workers Protests
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 25 2017 22:25
An account of the struggle of mostly immigrant Asian garment workers for work compensation and improvements in conditions.
Straight Outta Compton: NWA's righteous anger at the police and reactionary view of women - Miriam
A brief review of the movie Straight Outta Compton by Miriam, a Detroit member of First of May Anarchist Alliance.
Memorandum on the Bay Area food mart campaign
The Bay Area Food Mart Campaign began in 2009 and concluded in 2015. It was an experiment in reviving some of the IWW's essential revolutionary traditions in the context of the 21st century.
The Hollywood blacklist - Dan Georgakas
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 23 2015 19:47
A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s and 1950s.
Choke points: mapping an anticapitalist counter-logistics in California - Degenerate Communism
While it is indisputably within the sphere of production that the value-form is created and the obfuscation of social relations under capital begins, perhaps the notion that it is within sphere of circulation that the value-form can begin to be destroyed necessitates more tactical experiments explicitly targeting this realm in the US context of struggles.
In dubious battle - John Steinbeck
Story about two Communists who set out to organise a strike of seasonal fruit pickers in California.
California labor: Total engagement
Submitted by IDP on Oct 23 2012 05:27
This chapter from Carey McWilliams, California: The Great Exception (1949) tells the history of class war in San Francisco, when "all of labor [was] pitted against all of capital." The conditions were unique: "Nowhere in the world has there been a more favorable economic environment, nor more freedom for social and political experiments than in California." The result? Wobbly organizing and near-general strikes on the San Francisco waterfront in 1886, 1893, 1901, and 1916, setting the stage for the 1934 General Strike, followed by the Oakland General Strike in 1946.
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