Category: History

Freedom Betrayed

  Review of: Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War of Independence, Alan Gilbert, 2012, University of Chicago Press By Mike Kolhoff The participation of African Americans in the War of Independence is widely known but only vaguely understood. Almost everyone knows that Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and sailor, took an [...]

Posted: April 3rd, 2013 under Anti-Racism, History, Reviews.

International Women’s Day 2013

Workers Solidarity Alliance 2013 International Women’s Day Statement On March 8, 1908, thousands of women left their jobs in the sweatshops of New York City’s Lower East Side and took to the streets to demand their rights as women and as workers. In 1917, their sisters in Russia followed suit, and helped to bring about [...]

Posted: March 8th, 2013 under ACAB, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Racism, Culture, Ecology, Economy, Gender & Sexuality, History, International, Solidarity, WSA.

Hartford Miners Uprising of 1914

By Mike Kolhoff In July of 1914 workers at coal mines in Northwest Arkansas rose up in open rebellion against the boss’s system. They launched an attack on mines held by company guards and armed scabs, and they won – and then they set the mines ablaze and dynamited the shafts rather than see them [...]

Posted: September 20th, 2012 under History.

From the Archives: Why Does the Union Bureaucracy Exist?

Thanks to Juan Conatz for the transcription. Why Does the Union Bureaucracy Exist? By Tom Wetzel From: ideas & action #9 (Spring 1988) Editor’s note: This is the first installment of an essay on unionism which will be published as a series in the next several issues of the magazine. This magazine was founded with [...]

Posted: June 30th, 2012 under Archives, Economy, History, Labor.

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