The big strike: a journalist describes the 1934 San Francisco strike - Mike Quin Mike Quin, a self-described “rank-and-file journalist,” offered a sympathetic picture of the…
Google will never be a "good neighbour"; we need to be our own best hope Article about Google and the continuing gentrification of San Francisco.
The Mooney-Billings frame-up - Louis Adamic Louis Adamic's fascinating history of the framing of union organisers Tom Mooney and Warren Billings of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day…
Things I Hate About San Francisco's Gentrification: A Love Poem This piece -- a tweeter poem of sorts, in 140 lines of 140 words or less -- originally appeared at…
The dock workers strike and San Francisco general strike, 1934 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's history of the 1934 strike of dock workers and the San Francisco general strike it…
Queens, hookers, and hustlers: Organizing for survival and revolt amongst gender-variant sex workers, 1950-1970 A selection from Mack Friedman’s Strapped for Cash: A History of American Hustler…
California labor: Total engagement This chapter from Carey McWilliams, California: The Great Exception (1949) tells the history of class war in San Francisco, when "all of labor …
Class-conscious machinists: "Stormy petrels of west coast labor" Sister machinist unions, San Francisco's Lodge 68 of the International Association of Machinists and…
The rebellion in Chile A number of groups in the San Francisco Bay Area will hold a vigil and protest in front of the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco on September 9…
VDT Law Fails Processed World on the overturning of a San Francisco ordinance brought in to protect VDT workers.
A World of Possibilities at 45 Westpoint Homeless Families and their friends provide a glimpse of what a really good Left could look like, argues James Tracy.
