Chicago Couriers Union: a lesson for IWW solidarity union organizers An in-depth article by Colin Bossen, about the IWW affiliated Chicago Couriers Union, which modeled…
“The man . . . died on my lap”: one women recalls the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 The testimony of Lupe Marshall to a U.S. Senate committee on the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, a day…
1917 Raids on the Socialist Party and the IWW An article in the International Socialist Review from October 1917 about the federal raids on the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of…
Chicago 1968 A history and analysis of the Yippie Festival of Life and the clashes with the police that occurred in Chicago 1968 during the Democratic National Convention.
The Pullman strike, 1894 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's excellent history of the massive but ultimately unsuccessful boycott and strike by the American Railway Union led by Eugene Debs…
The newspapers of the Young Lords Organization Attached are digital copies of nearly all the newspapers published by the Young Lords Organization in Chicago and Milwaukee between 1969-71…
Chicago factory occupiers form worker cooperative First, they occupied the factory to get their wages from the bosses that owned the machinery. Then, they occupied their factory to keep the…
Towards a new labor movement (principles of left communism) - For the Workers' Opposition A manifesto written and presented in Spring 1981 by For the Workers' Opposition, a small group of anarchists and council communists from Chicago, IL inspired by the German/Dutch communist left.
Striking agreement: How one neighborhood school sees CPS’ attempt at a deal A first-hand account from the Chicago Teachers Union strike, from education worker Agnieszka Karoluk…
On the Chicago Teachers Union strike The following is from a Chicago member of First of May Anarchist Alliance. It is an overview of the situation and was drafted over the weekend…
From gang-bangers to urban revolutionaries: the Young Lords of Chicago An essay on Chicago's Young Lords Organization, a Puerto Rican radical group started by former gang…
Staughton Lynd’s remarks on Solidarity Unionism Staughton Lynd's speech at the 2005 IWW Centenary in Chicago, Illinois.
