What We Want, What We Believe (1966)
The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program outlined key demands for social reforms and called for challenging existing authority—at times through armed self-defense—to achieve greater equality and…
An Unladylike Strike-1959–1963
ori A. Flores’ article in 2009 delves into the largely forgotten history of Texas labor systems, particularly the Tex-son garment workers’ strike from 1959 to 1963, which caused great disruption to Sa…
Students for a Democratic Society Statement on Vietnam (1965)
The 1965 SDS statement, delivered by Paul Potter at the end of a Washington march, argued that U.S. involvement in Vietnam contradicted American democratic ideals and supported an imperialistic regime…
The Port Huron Statement (1962)
Revealing Division: The Philadelphia Shirtwaist Strike, the Jewish Community and Republican Machine Politics, 1909-1910
Immigrant women worked in sweatshops that fined them for being late, charged them for their own supplies, harassed them by contractors, and paid as little as 50 cents a day. In 1909, 7,000 walked off…
Women’s Collective Action Limitations (Tilly, 1981)
Louise A. Tilly’s ” Paths of Proletarianization: organization of Production, Sexual Division of Labor, and Women’s Collective Action”, was published in 1981 as a study of working-class women’s role in…
How a Kosher Meat Boycott brought Jewish Women’s History into the Mainstream
In May 1902, immigrant Jewish housewives in the Lower East Side of New York City launched a boycott, lasting about 3 weeks, against kosher butchery shops in Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Bronx. Business p…
Carnival Against Capital? (OWS 2011)
The media wrote it off as a disorganized street party because of the costumes, drums, and even paper-mâché unicorns. Still, in reality, it was a deliberate protest with a history substantially longe…
A Yarn to Follow: The Dover Cotton Factory (1812—1821)
After working in intense conditions at a New Hampshire Cotton Factory, the women were fed up.
1946 African Mineworker’s Strike
Cheap labour has historically provided the back-bone for South Africa’s thriving mining industry. The South African Mine Workers’ Strike was a labour dispute involving mine workers of the Witwatersran…
¡Si me permiten hablar! (Let me speak!) 1977
Written by Domitila Barrios De Chungara, the exploitation within Bolivian mines is revealed as well as the subsequent female-led protests against inequitable capitalist accumulation.
The Liberator’s Salutation (1831)
The Liberator served as on of the most influential newspapers of the abolitionist movement, and in this “Salutation” by William Lloyd Garrison, we see the outline and intended success for the publicat…
Syntagma Square Assemblies
In May 2011, the movement of popular assemblies erupted as a disruption to society. Begun through a Facebook call to express indignation, this movement morphed quickly into a mass occupation. This ass…
Prisoners in Revolution – Roger Boberg, Jaan Laaman, John Yancey, and Richard Williams (1975)
This statement, written by revolutionary prisoners at New Hampshire State Prison in 1975, serves as a response and further discussion of the Weather Underground’s “Prairie Fire”, aiming to provide a…
Stop The Terrible War! – Vietnam War
The nonprofit organization Friends Committee on Legislation of California posted this flyer in 1972 to gather supporters and activists to end the war in Vietnam. It calls on citizens to contact their…
Women’s Day Off – Executive Committee for Women’s Day Off (1975)
On October 24, 1975, ignited by the activism of the Red Stockings radical women’s group, 90% of Iceland’s women went on strike to protest the exploitation of women’s unpaid labor at home and their und…
Herstory Monologues – Women Against Imperialism (1990)
This 1990 performance piece, “herstory,” amplifies the voices of diverse women confronting oppression while celebrating resistance. Personal anecdotes are intertwined with political demands, highlig…
Launching Statement of the ‘Solidarity Committee with Mahalla Workers’ (2007)
This is a launching statement of the ‘Solidarity Committee with Mahalla Workers,’ formed on September 25, 2007, to express their support for the workers’ strike at the Mahalla Spinning and Weaving Com…
Communique From an Absent Future – Research and Destroy (2009)
This pamphlet critiques the modern university system, claiming that it has become a tool of capitalism designed to produce obedient workers rather than encourage independent thought or true education.…
How to Fire Your Boss: A Workers’ Guide to Direct Action – Industrial Workers of the World (1968)
This pamphlet, first released by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1968 and revised in 2022, promotes direct action as a powerful tool for workers to secure better conditions at work. It ou…Related Posts:
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