L.A.’s Class Struggle Looks Like This: The Tenants Movement An article from Salvo, a Los Angeles working class newspaper, on recent tenants' struggles in the…
Picket Line Lessons: The UTLA Teacher Strike Members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra – Los Angeles who were involved in community mobilization in support of the strike and as members of UTLA…
"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 Home Saving Bank robbery, 1915 A short history of the robbery of a branch of the Home Saving Bank in Los Angeles in 1915 and its aftermath, by the Black Rose Anarchist…
Industrial Worker (February 24, 1917) Articles from the February 14, 1917 (Vol. 1, No. 46, Whole No. 46) issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the…
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…
Reflections on "Straight Outta Compton" I just saw Straight Outta Compton near my home, in a tiny theater that dates back to the silent era (1913) and which has miraculously survived…
Elaine Brown on the Black Panthers, Jean Seberg, Eldridge Cleaver and COINTELPRO Fascinating extracts from the memoir of Elaine Brown, the only female leader in the Black Panther…
1965 Watts riots photo gallery Images from the 1965 Watts riots, which took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from 11th-17th August 1965, resulting in over $40…
Revolutionary Autonomous Communities / Comunidades Autonomas Revolucionarias Zine #1 A publication of Revolutionary Autonomous Communities, an anarchist influenced "revolutionary…
The Disney cartoonists strike, 1941 - Sam Lowry A short history of a strike by Disney animators in 1941 and the organisation in the years building up to it.