The Case of Laquan McDonald Some background on the scandal surrounding the shooting of 17 year old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.
Introduction to Emma Goldman's Living my life - Miriam Brody Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition (2006) of Emma Goldman's Living my life, ed. Miriam…
The 1937 and 1938 San Francisco retail strikes - Michael B Reagan A history of the Department Store Employees Union Local 1100 and the 1937 and 1938 San Francisco…
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…
Atlanta's washerwomen strike, 1881 A short history of the strike of overwhelmingly African-American women laundresses in Atlanta Georgia. Coming only shortly after the abolition of…
The Bronx slave market, 1950 - Marvel Cooke Fascinating series of reports and first person accounts of the markets in New York City where unemployed African-American women would be hired by…
Sit-down strikes by women in 1937 - Ivan Greenberg A short account of women workers' participation in the sit down strike wave which swept the US in 1937.
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…
The Detroit Woolworth's sitdown strike, 1937 - Marc Norton A short history of the sit-in strike of women workers at Woolworth's in Detroit, which shook the…
"Is your washroom breeding bolsheviks?" poster An attempt at recreating the popular "Is your washroom breeding bolsheviks?" advertisement poster. A full sized version is attached.
