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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Capetillo, Luisa - a biography Short biography of Puerto Rican anarchist, feminist and labor agitator.
Puerto Rican cigar history Description of some of the conditions Puerto Rican cigar makers worked under.
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…
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…
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…
