Category: Resources

  • The Wobblies Full Documentary

    (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • IWW History Project

    IWW History Project Links to photos and documents, timeline of events, maps of strikes, IWW newspapers, and more. 

  • Bread and Roses: The Lawrence Textile Strike

    (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Open Collections Program: Women Working, Lawrence Strike of 1912

    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. 

  • The story of the Rebel Girl

    The story of the Rebel Girl

  • The Legend of Lucy Parsons

    The Legend of Lucy Parsons

  • History of the Socialist Party

    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…

  • KCTS 9 – History Making: General Strike

    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…

  • Anna Louise Strong Archive

    Anna Louise Strong Archive Works: 1919: No One Knows Where 1925: Children of Revolution 1925: First Time in History 1925: Stalin ‘The Voice of the Party’ Breaks Trotsky 1941: Stalin 1946: Talk with Mao Tse Tung 1949: In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report 1952: Letter to Susan Talmadge Detweiler 1956:…

  • Anna Louise Strong story

    Anna Louise Strong story Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) was one of the leaders of the Seattle General Strike in 1919 and an early advocate of communism. Although she left the United States just as the Communist Party was starting, her return visits from the Soviet Union and later from China…

  • Parsons, Lucy Gonzales

    Parsons, Lucy Gonzales Lucy Gonzales Parsons (c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was a labor organizer and orator. A dynamic, militant, self-educated public speaker and writer, she became the first American woman of color to carry her crusade for socialism across the country and overseas. Lucy was an unrelenting agitator, leading…

  • Lucy Parsons Biography

    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.

  • Helen Keller Reference Archive

    Helen Keller Reference Archive

  • How I Became a Socialist

    How I Became a Socialist By Helen Keller

  • The politics of Helen Keller | International Socialist Review

    The politics of Helen Keller | International Socialist Review Helen Keller is one of the most widely recognized figures in US history that people actually know very little about. That she was a serious political thinker who made important contributions in the fields of socialist theory and practice, or that…

  • The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller

    The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller

  • Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Archive

    Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Archive A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, she was involved in the campaign against the conviction in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1936 Flynn joined the Communist Party and wrote a bi-weekly column for women’s rights for the Daily Worker, and chaired the women’s commission.…

  • Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World

    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…

  • Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl

    Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl

  • The story of the Rebel Girl

    The story of the Rebel Girl “FOR PEACE and socialism is in the hearts, in the minds, on the lips of millions around the world…The ‘sun of tomorrow’ shines upon us. The future is ours.”