For one month now millions of gallons of oil have poured into the Gulf of Mexico. An underwater oil well being drilled by British Petroleum exploded killing eleven workers and seriously injuring 17. After the explosion BP and the US …
Last Friday, Governor Schwarzenegger announced his revised budget proposal, which looks a lot like the last several budget proposals. There is a pattern here: California politicians announce that the state did not bring in enough revenue in taxes, and so, …
On April 20th, the Deepwater horizon, a British Petroleum (BP) oil rig off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and began spilling enormous quantities of oil into the waters of the gulf. The oil well is 5,000 feet …
download PDF of this pamphlet Remembering the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike Genora (Johnson) Dollinger talking to Susan Rosenthal (Reprinted with permission from Susan Rosenthal) Preface There are times in history when the forces of capital and labor are so …
download illustrated PDF of this pamphlet Iraq This pamphlet aims to tell at least a part of the history of Iraq in order to prove a few important points: Iraq is an old civilization with a people who have fought …
download a PDF of this pamphlet This is the story of the 1946 Oakland General Strike told by a participant – Stan Weir, a seaman at the Oakland Port, and a revolutionary working class militant. We reprint this pamphlet because …
download illustrated PDF of this pamphlet Big Bill Haywood was one of the most important and colorful leaders of the U.S. working class. He was a leader of some of the most important labor battles from the 1890’s until the …
download illustrated PDF of this pamphlet One of the most important working-class holidays, May Day (International Workers Day), originated in the United States in the 1880s with the struggle for the eight-hour day. The expansion of capitalism in 19th century …
download PDF of this pamphlet The following is reprinted from: https://www.marxists.org/archive/cannon/works/1955/iww.htm source: Summer 1955 issue of Fourth International The IWW By James P. Cannon (1955) The Bold Design When the Founding Convention of the IWW – the Industrial Workers of the …
download PDF of this pamphlet An Account of What Happened in Seattle and Especially in the Seattle Labor Movement, During the General Strike, February 6 to 11, 1919 Originally issued by the History Committee of the General Strike Committee, March …
In 1941, tens of thousands of autoworkers at the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, overcame many obstacles to build a union from the bottom up and to win a strike that had a strong potential to turn into …
download PDF of this pamphlet In 1917 the workers of Russia carried out the first victorious socialist revolution. It was the first example of workers taking power consciously as a class. The Russian workers led the rest of the county …
download illustrated PDF of this pamphlet Today many workers feel discouraged looking at the way society is run. The economy and the governmental structure seem so complicated. The seats of power seem omnipotent. These factors can make us feel that …
This past Sunday, more people in the U.S. usually go out to eat in restaurants than at any other time of the year. Why? Mother’s Day is when we are supposed to recognize the women in our lives, especially mothers. …
A horrific anti-immigration law (SB 1070) was passed last week in Arizona. Under the new legislation, local and state police officers will have the authority to stop anyone and demand identification, without a warrant All they need to do this …
Immigrants in the U.S. • The U.S. has always been a country of immigrants. The vast majority of people in the US are either immigrants themselves or the relatives of immigrants. • There are 38 million immigrants in the US, …
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