Protesters in Chicago take action to reclaim MLK weekend Protesters in Chicago are marking Martin Luther King Jr weekend with actions targeting the city's…
The Case of Laquan McDonald Some background on the scandal surrounding the shooting of 17 year old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.
The making of an organizer: A history and analysis of the Chicago Couriers Union 2003-2006 A personal account of an organiser's time in the Chicago Couriers Union (CCU)
Young Patriots and Panthers: A story of white anti-racism A brief history of the collaboration between the Black Panthers and its white counterpart Young…
The Obama Administration Six Years In: the situation worsens A quick look back at how the country has fared after 6 years of the Obama Administration.
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…
