Tag: IWW

  • 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.

  • The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller

    The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller

  • 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.”

  • Flynn Biography

    Flynn Biography Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the most influential labor organizers of the early 20th century, and was the first female leader of the Communist Party. She lived a colorful life full of success and failure both in her professional and personal life, and dedicated her life to…

  • Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM

    Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964)

  • The Wobblies Full Documentary

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  • IWW History Project

    IWW History Project Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World captured the attention of a generation with its fiery rhetoric, daring tactics, and program of revolutionary industrial unionism. Pledging to replace the narrow craft unionism of the American Federal of Labor with massive industrial unions, the organization grew…