Category: History

On Labor Day

Over a hundred years ago a frightened President Grover Cleveland pushed congress to recognize Labor Day as a federal holiday in 1894. (The September holiday was first observed in 1882 by the Central Labor Union of New York.) In the wake of a strike that saw workers’ murdered at the hands of U.S. Marshals and [...]

Posted: September 5th, 2011 under History, Labor.

Zizek’s Jacobin Spirit

By Steve Fake A Jacobin legacy has haunted the left ever since the political spectrum became defined as a left-right axis. This is hardly a surprise – the Jacobins were, after all, the original left-wing. And the role of the “left” in the French Revolution was a notoriously mixed-bag. A concern for equality was coupled, [...]

Posted: April 19th, 2011 under Debate, History, Ideas.

Interview with Mike Harris

By Kevin S. Mike Harris is a founding member of the WSA and one of its predecessor organization, the Libertarian Workers Group, from New York. Following the WSA Continental Conference last May (see report Workers Solidarity Alliance Holds Continental Conference), we approached him for an interview, as a founding member, a long-standing anarchist militant and [...]

Posted: January 12th, 2011 under History, Labor, WSA.

Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media

By Steven Fake

The present effectiveness of the United States propaganda system may well be without historical parallel. Its ability to shape public perceptions of events and issues and to garner support for ideologies that undergird the political and economic structures of society has been amply documented.

Posted: November 10th, 2010 under History, Ideas, Labor.

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