U.S. class struggle history

Jim devoted his life to bringing the history of U.S. working-class struggles to students of history--and to workers themselves.

U.S. workers have devised many tactics to fight their employers. The Taft-Hartley Act was designed to outlaw as many as possible.

Supporters of an effort to exonerate a victim of the 1950s anti-communist witch hunts are taking their fight to Washington.

One hundred years after his murder by the state, we're still celebrating the revolutionary activism and music of Wobbly Joe Hill.

There's a tendency among defenders of the status quo to turn great historical figures like Eugene Debs into harmless icons.

The Communist Party was the first socialist group in the U.S. to make the fight against racial oppression central to its program.

An engaging biography of Frank Little aims to recover the IWW leader's mighty struggles as lessons for left-wingers today.

A socialist journalist reveals how the priorities of capitalism were responsible for a deadly nightmare on the Chicago River.

The dual-unionist strategy of syndicalist formations put them outside the main terrain of class struggle at important times.

Billie Holiday and Ethel Rosenberg would both have been 100 years old this year, and their lives were intertwined in so many ways.

Alice Peurala left an impressive legacy as a fighter for workers' rights and women's rights inside the labor movement.

A new collection of essays by Kim Moody is explicitly written for socialists organizing in or around the labor movement.

UPS had to respond to the tumult and discontent of the 1960s, but Big Brown did its best to "shape change" in its interests.

Half a century ago, labor activist Stan Weir identified the sources of militancy and radicalism among rank-and-file unionists.

In the 1950s and '60s, UPS transformed itself from a specialized delivery company into an emerging giant of shipping.

During the 1960s and 70s, coal miners connected their struggle for a stronger union to the fight against "environmental mayhem."