The making of an organizer: A history and analysis of the Chicago Couriers Union 2003-2006
Submitted by wojtek on Jul 24 2015 10:27
A personal account of an organiser's time in the Chicago Couriers Union (CCU)
Young Patriots and Panthers: A story of white anti-racism
Submitted by wojtek on Jul 19 2015 01:15
A brief history of the collaboration between the Black Panthers and its white counterpart Young Patriot Organisation in Chicago.
The Obama Administration Six Years In: the situation worsens
Submitted by Soapy on Jul 8 2015 15:25
A quick look back at how the country has fared after 6 years of the Obama Administration.
Red Chicago: American Communism at its grassroots, 1928-35 - Randi Storch
Submitted by Anonymous on May 26 2015 02:17
A book by Randi Storch about the Communist Party USA in Chicago during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Chicago Couriers Union: a lesson for IWW solidarity union organizers
An in-depth article by Colin Bossen, about the IWW affiliated Chicago Couriers Union, which modeled itself off of a conception of 'solidarity unionism'.
“The man . . . died on my lap”: one women recalls the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jun 29 2014 23:30
The testimony of Lupe Marshall to a U.S. Senate committee on the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, a day in which police opened fire on strikers.
1917 Raids on the Socialist Party and the IWW
Submitted by Roughneck Wobbl... on Mar 28 2014 08:38
An article in the International Socialist Review from October 1917 about the federal raids on the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World the month before.
The Pullman strike, 1894 - Jeremy Brecher
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 23 2013 17:34
Jeremy Brecher's excellent history of the massive but ultimately unsuccessful boycott and strike by the American Railway Union led by Eugene Debs against the tyrannical Pullman Palace Car Company.
The newspapers of the Young Lords Organization
Attached are digital copies of nearly all the newspapers published by the Young Lords Organization in Chicago and Milwaukee between 1969-71. We do not agree with much of the politics of the newspapers, but reproduce them for reference.
Chicago factory occupiers form worker cooperative
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 15 2013 23:31
First, they occupied the factory to get their wages from the bosses that owned the machinery. Then, they occupied their factory to keep the second bosses from shutting down their machinery. And, now, they are on their way to owning and running the machinery.
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