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Florence S. Boos- The Socialist League

Submitted by RobberBurns88 on Feb 9 2017 01:48

Florence S. Boos gives a short overview of the history of the Socialist League of the 1880s and 1890s, one of the most important organisations in the early history of marxism and anarchism in Britain.

Staat: een inleiding

Een korte inleiding over wat we bij libcom.org bedoelen als we het over de staat hebben, en hoe we denken dat we er ons, als arbeiders, toe zouden moeten verhouden.

Database of repression of the IWW, 1906-1920

Submitted by Steven. on Feb 8 2017 18:55

A table detailing hundreds of instances of state and employer repression of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union in the United States in the early part of the 20th century.

Review: Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism

Loren Goldner's extensive review and analysis of Frank Bardacke. Trampling Out The Vintage. Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (Verso).

Violence in the 1979 Imperial Valley Lettuce strike

LA Times article from 1986 discussing the court hearings about violence deployed during the Imperial Valley lettuce strike 1979. The article is not sympathetic to the workers, but contains information not easily found elsewhere.

Lettuce Strike Apparently Succeeding Despite Odds

Washington Post article from 5th February 1979 on the Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike

Bloody fight in lettuce fields

Chicago Tribune article on from February 25th 1979 on the Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike.

Feb 26th 1979 report on the Imperial Valley lettuce strike

Article published in the New York Times with the headlineLettuce Strike Crippling 40% of California Output

Account on the conditions leading up to the 1979 Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike

An account by a farm worker on industrial background to the Imperial Valley California lettuce workers strike of 1979. Written for the National Ministry of Farm Workers.

Freedom September 17, 2005

NB// This is a bit rough and ready as I'm testing a new scanning wand, but what the hey.

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