The USA, Qatar and ‘New’ Imperialist Alignments The official story is that Saudi Arabia, supported by Egypt, the Emirates, Bahrain and other sidekicks in the Gulf, is trying to isolate Qatar…
African Americans campaign for desegregation of department store eating facilities in Kansas City, Missouri, 1958-59 A summary of the public boycott of department stores in Kansas City that took place in order to desegregate the dining halls within them. The boycott lasted from 19th December 1958 until 9th February 1959.
Feminists sit-in at Ladies Home Journal to protest the magazine’s depiction of women, 1970 A brief overview of the sit-in protest held at the offices of the Ladies' Home Journal in March 1970. Why the protest was held, what the aims were and the outcome/after effects.
Movements and memory: The making of the Stonewall myth An examination by Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Suzanna M. Crage on why the Stonewall riots became central to gay collective memory while other events in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York did not.
Review: They can't kill us all: Ferguson, Baltimore, and the new era in America's racial justice movement A review of Wesley Lowery's book covering the emergence of the Black Lives Matter…
Lyft: strikes and blockades A lot of discussion around Lyft Shuttle derides it for doing little more than reinvent the city bus. What this forgets, however, is that transit…
The women's day massacre, 1937 A short account of the 19 June killing of 16 people and wounding of 283 by police during a demonstration of women and children in support of a…
ISOnuts: one stop activism and the gentrification of the left An Activist enters the bizarre and alienating world of the International Socialist Organization.
A history of trade unionism in the Philippines A detailed account of the history of the workers' movement in the Philippines, by the International Communist Current. We disagree with the…
Young Patriots at the United Front Against Fascism Conference, 1969 A speech by William "Preacherman" Fesperman at the 1969 anti-fascism conference held by the Black…
IWW strike timeline, 1905-1920 A timeline of strikes led supported by the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union in the United States 1905-1920.
Andrea Salsedo of Pantelleria A short account of the life of Italian anarchist Andrea Salsedo, who was killed in 1920 by a "fall" from a police station window in New York.