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Welcome to Operation Dixie, the Most Ambitious Unionization Attempt in the U.S.
Southern segregation, racism and a militarized police meant the plan was destined to fail.
by
Meagan Day
via
Medium
on
May 8, 2018
A Culture of Resistance
The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.
by
Chuck Keeney
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
March 30, 2018
Pioneering Labor Activist Dolores Huerta
Huerta was far more than an assistant of Cesar Chavez, leader of United Farm Workers, and she risked her life for her activism.
by
Dolores Huerta
,
Lily Rothman
via
TIME
on
March 27, 2018
How Poor, Mostly Jewish Immigrants Organized 20,000 and Fought for Workers Rights
These women came ready to fight.
by
Meagan Day
via
Timeline
on
March 9, 2018
Labor and the Long Seventies
In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.
by
Lane Windham
,
Chris Brooks
via
Jacobin
on
February 25, 2018
The Ballot and the Break
Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party, the most successful labor party in US history, is rich in lessons for challenging the two-party system.
by
Eric Blanc
via
Jacobin
on
December 4, 2017
The Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day
From the beginning, International Women's Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism.
by
Cintia Frencia
,
Daniel Gaido
via
Jacobin
on
March 8, 2017
When Miners Strike: West Virginia Coal Mining and Labor History
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by
Adena Barnette
via
Digital Public Library of America
on
April 7, 2016
The History of National Women's History Month
The celebratory month has its roots in the socialist and labor movements.
by
Julia Zorthian
via
TIME
on
February 29, 2016
How a Revolutionary Was Born
Carl Skoglund's early life as a militant worker in Sweden prepared him for leadership in the 1934 Teamster Strikes.
by
Joe Allen
via
Jacobin
on
December 21, 2015
partner
Fierce Urgency of Now
Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.
via
BackStory
on
August 23, 2013
Lincoln and Marx
The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.
by
Robin Blackburn
via
Jacobin
on
August 28, 2012
When Blue-Collar Pride Became Identity Politics
Remembering how the white working class got left out of the New Left, and why we're all paying for it today.
by
Jefferson Cowie
,
Joan Walsh
via
Salon
on
September 6, 2010
Don’t Despair About the Supreme Court
In 2005, Howard Zinn explained why it was naive to depend on the Court to defend the rights of marginalized Americans.
by
Howard Zinn
via
The Progressive
on
October 21, 2005
Shawn Fain Is Channeling the Best of the UAW’s Past
The ongoing UAW strike is reminiscent of early UAW leader Walter Reuther — before the union and Reuther himself downsized their ambitions.
by
Barry Eidlin
via
Jacobin
on
October 16, 1923
A Return to Gompers
Samuel Gompers, the Teamsters at the Republican National Convention, and where unions fit into party politics.
by
Dustin Guastella
via
Jacobin
on
September 27, 2024
partner
Kamala Harris Is Borrowing From the Feminist Playbook
Harris is taking a page from the playbook that has long helped women advance the quest for equality.
by
Melissa Blair
via
Made By History
on
September 26, 2024
The Golden Age of Wisconsin Socialism
At its peak in the 1920s and early ’30s, the Socialist Party in Wisconsin used confrontational tactics and nonsocialists alliances to make legislative advances.
by
Joshua Kluever
via
Jacobin
on
September 12, 2024
Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.
by
Harold Meyerson
via
The American Prospect
on
August 8, 2024
Chiquita Must Pay for Its Crimes in Latin America
70 years since President Árbenz was ousted for standing up to Chiquita, the firm might finally be held to account for its ties to a far-right paramilitary group in Colombia.
by
Klas Lundström
via
Jacobin
on
July 10, 2024
Is the United States Too Devoted to the Constitution?
A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.
by
John Fabian Witt
via
The New Republic
on
June 24, 2024
How Activists Across the Pacific Northwest Planned the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
Looking back on the environmentalist and anti-globalization movements of the 1990s.
by
D. W. Gibson
via
Literary Hub
on
June 21, 2024
partner
The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment
State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago.
by
Betsy Wood
via
Made By History
on
May 13, 2024
Extravagances of Neoliberalism
On how the fringe ideas of a set of American neoliberals became a new and pervasive way of life.
by
Melinda Cooper
,
Benjamin Kunkel
via
The Baffler
on
May 13, 2024
Reviving the Language of Empire
On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.
by
Aziz Rana
,
Nora Caplan-Bricker
via
Jewish Currents
on
May 9, 2024
Work Sucks. What Could Salvage It?
New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.
by
Erik Baker
via
The New Yorker
on
May 1, 2024
Whiggism Is Still Wrong
Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to "make hard work cool again." He isn’t the first.
by
Sohrab Ahmari
via
The American Conservative
on
November 21, 2023
How Hollywood’s Black Friday Strike Changed Labor Across America
A 1945 union vs. studios battle set off broad right-wing hysteria—its lessons should resonate today.
by
Gerald Horne
,
Anthony Ballas
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
November 9, 2023
Eclipsed in His Era, Bayard Rustin Gets to Shine in Ours
The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?
by
Adam Gopnik
via
The New Yorker
on
November 6, 2023
Jews and Joe
From European streets to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Jews have been deeply involved in the history of coffee and the café scene.
by
Orge Castellano
via
Tablet
on
August 29, 2023
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