Workers Struggles

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 …

In 1871 the workers of Paris were “ready to storm heaven.” …

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 …

In 1912, in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 25,000 workers went on strike. …

Revolutionary University October 2016 Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East …

The Minneapolis strikes of 1934 have always occupied a special place in the historical understanding of the Trotskyist movement …

In 1877, a strike erupted across the U.S. which newspapers called an “insurrection” and even …

Remembering the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike, Genora Johnson …

1946 Oakland General Strike, recalled by a participant: Stan Weir …

The Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago in 1905 …

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. …