Tag: Anna Louise Strong

  • 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…

  • Seattle General Strike 1919

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  • 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…