Author: DSA SF
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May Day
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On May 1st DSA joined with thousands of other immigrants, activists, socialists and workers for a march on Market Street to celebrate International Workers Day and A Day Without Immigrants. …and there were good dogs.
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IWW History Project
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IWW History Project Links to photos and documents, timeline of events, maps of strikes, IWW newspapers, and more.
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Open Collections Program: Women Working, Lawrence Strike of 1912
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Open Collections Program: Women Working, Lawrence Strike of 1912 A history of the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 led by the I.W.W., commonly known as the “Bread and Roses” strike.
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History of the Socialist Party
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If the defining characteristic of an American third party is finishing third in a presidential contest, then the Socialist Party has been the country’s quintessential third party, recording seven third- place finishes from 1904 to 1944. And the Socialists arguably rank with the Populists and the Prohibitionists as the big…
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KCTS 9 – History Making: General Strike
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In 1919, workers in Seattle staged the first general strike in the United States. Sixty thousand union men and women walked off their jobs in shipyards, bakeries, restaurants, and lumber mills. This five day citywide shutdown was an important first step in establishing the power of the worker, and it…
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Lucy Parsons Biography
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Lucy Parsons Biography Biographies on Lucy Parsons Challenging the blatant sexism of her time, Lucy Parsons, the wife of Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons, was one of the most influential women involved in the American anarchist and labor movements.
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Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World
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Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World I am not going to attempt to justify sabotage on any moral ground. If the workers consider that sabotage is necessary, that in itself makes sabotage moral. Its necessity is its excuse for existence. And for us to…