1940s

A Worker’s Message From Poland And The Ghetto: “Socialism Lives and Will Dominate the World”

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The second private letter from a German worker and soldier active in the underground socialist movement in Germany, sent to a friend in the United States and published in The Militant in 1942. This one recounts the three weeks that the author spent in Warsaw at the end of 1941, explaining the situation in occupied Poland and the socialist movement there.

Letter From A Worker In The German Underground

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The first private letter from a German worker and soldier active in the underground socialist movement in Germany, sent to a friend in the United States and published in The Militant in 1942. It describes the political situation in Nazi Germany at the time, and how the socialists tried to counter Nazi propaganda and make links with socialists of other nationalities.

The French Miners Strike of 1948: Some Scraps of history

What little information I've managed to dig up on what seems to have been an important struggle in post war France.

Między własnością publiczną a własnością wspólną - Anton Pannekoek

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Holenderski astronom, marksista i główny teoretyk niemiecko-holenderskiej lewicy komunistycznej Anton Pannekoek tłumaczy różnicę między własnością publiczną a własnością wspólną. Tekst pochodzi z 1947 r., i opublikowany był w amerykańskim czasopiśmie Western Socialist.

Rewolucja robotnicza - Anton Pannekoek

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Rozdział przedstawiający rewolucję robotniczą jako proces organizacji i samokształcenia klasy pracowniczej, pochodzący z książki Antona Pannekoeka pt. Rady robotnicze (1947). Pannekoek był jednym z głównych teoretyków niemiecko-holenderskiej lewicy komunistycznej.

Why?

Archive of Why?, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from 1942-1947.

The making of an interethnic coalition: urban and rural anarchists in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946–1947

Anarchist rally in La Paz, 1930.

Kevin A. Young's account of the interethnic alliance between urban anarchists and indigenous peasants which facilitated the 1947 upheavals surrounding La Paz, Bolivia.

The CIO, 1935-1955 - Robert H. Zieger

A comprehensive, if institutional, history of the CIO, an American federation of industrial unions that organized many of the mass industries in the United States during the 1930s-1950s.

The CIO's left-led unions, edited by Steve Rosswurm

A collection edited by Steve Rosswurm of the CIO's unions's that had radical left leadership.

A new anarchism emerges, 1940–1954

A history by Andrew Cornell of the American anarchism movement from the beginning of the Second World War until the mid-1950s.