Video footage of Pyotr Kropotkin's funeral
Submitted by wojtek on Jan 22 2013 02:44
Video footage of Pyotr Kropotkin's funeral which took place from 10th to 13th February, 1921. It was documented by 'Section of social chronicles of all-Russian cinema and photo publishing'.
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин; 9th December, 1842 – 8th February, 1921).
They didn't suppress the Wobblies - Fred Thompson
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 9 2012 00:47
An article by Fred Thompson contesting the myth that the IWW was smashed by repression during World War I. Originally appeared in Radical America (September-October 1967)
There is a widespread misunderstanding that the government and big business suppressed the IWW during World War I. They tried. They hurt and hampered, but they did not suppress. The record is a practical subject for study by those who find themselves unpopular with those in power today.
Futility of Fosterism
A critique of the labor politics of William Z. Foster and the Communist Party of America's Trade Union Education League (TUEL). Author Ben Legare was the main US organizer for the One Big Union (OBU) a socialist union founded in western Canada by dissident members of the American Federation of Labor.
The One Big Union of Canada
A 1920 article descriving conflict within the One Big Union in Canada over industrial vs. regional organization.
Two hostile camps have developed in the Canadian One Big Union. The one is fighting for a militant industrial form of an organization, the other for a geographical (district) beans and soup association.
The former is advocated by the lumber (migratory) workers, and the later by the city "home" guard element.
Ben Fletcher, IWW organizer
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Sep 8 2012 22:53
An essay on Ben Fletcher's efforts as an IWW organizer.
Originally appeared in Pennsylvania History, Vol. 46, No. 3 (July, 1979)
Rebel Girls and Union Maids: the woman question in the journals of the AFL and IWW, 1905-1920
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 29 2012 06:08
An article by Ann Schofield which contrasts the differences and examines the striking likenesses between the AFL and the IWW approaches to the woman question through their treatment of important women's issues of the day.
Originally appeared in Feminist Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer, 1983)
The One Big Union in Washington
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 29 2012 04:26
An article by David Jay Bercuson on the radical Canadian 'One Big Union' and its efforts to organize in Washington state (U.S.).
Originally appeared in The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Jul., 1978)
The IWW and political parties - Vincent St. John
Vincent St. John on how the IWW views political parties.
We are in receipt of many inquiries relative to the position of the I. W. W. and political action. One fellow worker wants to know, "How is this revolutionary body going to express itself politically?" and "if it is going to hop through the industrial world on one leg?"
Mussolini, Sacco-Vanzetti and the Anarchists
Submitted by wojtek on Jul 19 2012 09:36
An examination of Benito Mussolini's attitude towards Sacco and Vanzetti by Philip Cannistraro.
The One Big Union Monthly 1920.08
August 1920 issue of The One Big Union Monthly, an early publication of the IWW.
CONTENTS
-Political Stew for 1920, Cartoon by Dust
-IWW Preamble
-Sunrise over the Harvest Fields, Cartoon by Dust
-The Agricultural Workers' Campaign
-The Leaning Tower of Capitalism is Swaying
-The IWW and Politics
-Poland and Italy
-City Central Councils
-Stools and Fools
-The Stool Pigeon and his Sphere
-Fear. Poem by Pacific Red
-Money Madness by WC Weber
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