Articles
1968 – Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible!
There are certain years that are pivotal in history, when cataclysmic changes in consciousness take place and this paradigm shift spreads contagiously. …
Workers Struggles
Articles
The Russian Revolution of 1917
Russian workers led the people of Russia in an effort to build a better world, and they reached out to help the rest of the international working class to do the same …
Pamphlets
The Paris Commune, 1871: When the Working Class Seized Power for the First Time
In 1871 the workers of Paris were “ready to storm heaven.” …
Articles
The Strike at River Rouge: Detroit 1941
In 1941, tens of thousands of auto workers at the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, overcame many obstacles to build a union from the bottom up …
Pamphlets
The 1912 Bread and Roses Strike, Lawrence Massachusetts
In 1912, in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 25,000 workers went on strike. …
Pamphlets
The 1934 Minneapolis General Strike
The Minneapolis strikes of 1934 have always occupied a special place in the historical understanding of the Trotskyist movement …
Pamphlets
Striking Flint
Remembering the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike, Genora Johnson …
Pamphlets
The Oakland General Strike (1946) – by Stan Weir
1946 Oakland General Strike, recalled by a participant: Stan Weir …
Pamphlets
May Day – Made in the USA, Exported to the World
One of the most important working-class holidays originated in the United States in the 1880s …
Pamphlets
The IWW by James Cannon
The Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago in 1905 …
Pamphlets
The Seattle General Strike of 1919
The Seattle General Strike as recorded by the strikers, recounting the extraordinary story of the working people of an entire city coming together to run their city in their interests. …
