"The writing is on the walls": Interview with a striking LA teacher At the time of this writing, members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) have been on strike for a…
Striking For The Future of Education: Interview with a Los Angeles Teacher More than 30,000 educators in the country’s second-biggest school district of Los Angeles are poised…
The History of a One-sided Dialogue With Todd Ashker Historian Denis O'Hearn writes about his relationship with Todd Ashker, one of the leaders of the 2011-2013 hunger strike movement in California…
The Short Corridor: How the Most Isolated Prisoners in America Took on the System, and Won An article from the LA Review of Books giving a history of the mass hunger strike…
The Occupation of Alcatraz A history of the occupation of Alcatraz island by the Group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) a coalition of native American activists and…
1912: The San Diego free speech fight 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…
1992-96: Asian Immigrant Garment Workers Protests 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…
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 A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of…
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…