Question of Forces: Interview on Community College Labor Struggle in Philadelphia Anarchists in Philadelphia conducted an interview with a teacher at a community college following a…
1996-7: Philadelphians campaign against welfare cuts In 1996 state and federal welfare reforms threatened to leave hundreds of thousands of poor and unemployed under threat. A coalition of…
1965: Philadelphia Dewey's Restaurant Sit In After Dewey's restaurant began refusing to serve suspected homosexual customers three teenagers staged a sit down protest, possibly the first sit…
Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement 2009-2011 Since the first day that Zuccotti Park was occupied there has been a shadowy figure haunting Occupy…
Hospital Voice Partial online archive of a radical bulletin produced for hospital workers in Philadelphia, beginning in November 1970.
Philly retail workers build solidarity union - Jon Bekken An article by Jon Bekken about the South Street Workers Union, an effort to organize food & retail…
A Wobbly Martyr's Grave - Bob Helms An article by Bob Helms about finding the former home and grave of Martynas Petkus, a IWW member who was shot and killed by police during a strike in 1917. Originally appeared in Industrial Worker #1617 (November 1998)
Wobs fight Quaker union-busting An article by Alexis Buss on an IWW campaign at a Quaker-operated office building in Philadelphia. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker #1607 (December 1997).
My first years in Philadelphia - Joseph Cohen A chapter from the autobiographical memoirs of Joseph Cohen, a Philadelphia-based Jewish anarchist at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries…
Forty years in the struggle: memoirs of a Jewish anarchist - Chaim Leib Weinberg Autobiographical memoir of Philadelphia-based Jewish anarchist, Chaim Leib Weinberg, translated by…
Human guinea pigs "band together" and win a pay hike Two accounts by human lab rats who undertook successful strike action for better pay.
Review: Local 8 shows interracial unionism key to victory A review by Matt White of Peter Cole's book, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in…
