Image The bloody May of 1936 in Thessaloniki, Greece A general strike of the tobacco workers and other unions on May 8th 1936 led to the bloody events of May 9th. The police confronted the massive…
Image 1937 cigar industry strike A history of the sit down strikes by predominantly Polish women workers in Detroit during the great depression: part of a national wave of sit…
Image Immigrant women beat cigar company bosses - Martha Grevatt A short history of the wave of sitdown strikes by predominantly Polish women cigar makers in Detroit…
Image Review: Civil rights unionism: Tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth century south A review of Robert Korstad's book on Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural,…
Image The Corporation (Documentary) The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is…
Image Speras, Constantinos, 1893-1943 A short biography of Constantinos Speras (Κωνσταντίνος Σπέρας), a Greek anarcho-syndicalist, and one of the pioneers of the working class trade…
Image Capetillo, Luisa - a biography Short biography of Puerto Rican anarchist, feminist and labor agitator.
Image Puerto Rican cigar history Description of some of the conditions Puerto Rican cigar makers worked under.
Image Funeral of a martyr The story of the funeral of Hamdullah Uysal, a Tekel worker, who died during the recent struggle, an extract from a longer article soon to be…
Image Turkey: Tekel workers take on the government and the unions A detailed account an analysis of the struggle of thousands of Tekel workers in Turkey against mass…
Image Jose Yglesias remembers the solidarity of the cigar makers and their lectors - Studs Terkel A personal account, as told to the late Studs Terkel, of the cigar workers…
