by Mohawk Valley Freedom School / Press Release Join the Mohawk Valley Freedom School in our second event celebrating Black History Month and the legacy of Black revolutionary socialist, longshoreman, and IWW union activist Ben Fletcher. Historian and author Peter Cole will give a talk about his book […]
by Nunzio Pernicone For three decades Tresca was a free-lance revolutionary paladin among Italian radicals in the United States. His political views had taken shape in his native Abruzzi, where he embraced socialism with the fiery militancy that characterized his entire career. As branch secretary of the Italian […]
by Jeffrey B. Perry St. Croix-born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of early twentieth-century America. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, he was described by the historian Joel A. Rogers, in “World’s Great Men of Color” as “perhaps the […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunna and Elizabeth Meeks The rural Upstate NY village of Ilion, located just East of Utica, is home to Remington Arms, the oldest gun manufacturer in the nation. The massive, sprawling red brick factory is the beating heart of this small village of around 8,000 […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation This interview was conducted by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn in February 2020 and was originally published on the Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation . He sat down with Irish anarchist, organizer and writer Andrew Flood […]
by Mohammed Elnaiem / Jstor Daily This interview is accompanied by an article about “The Detroit Rebellion” that contextualizes the tumultuous period in Detroit history that it discusses. Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell and Donald Abdul Roberts (Waistline and Abdul, respectively) grew up in times that resonate with our […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Industrial Worker It seemed like any normal workday for Kimberly Jones at the ALDI grocery store in Utica, New York– as normal as it can be for a frontline worker during a pandemic. Jones had worked at ALDI for nearly three years but […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / The Indypendent As the pandemic spread and New York City became the global epicenter of the coronavirus, the restaurant industry was jolted with shutdowns, closures, furloughs and mass layoffs. Ellen’s Stardust Diner, a destination for tourists who want to experience the musical allure […]
by Frank. Cedervall This speech was given by IWW member and organizer Frank Cedervall at the IWW convention on September 7, 1972. Cedervall organized with the IWW in Cleveland, a city where the union had a large membership in various metal and machine manufacturing plants and factories well […]
by Joel Olsen/Black Rose Anarchist Federation The following commentary is from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation. This now classic essay by the late Joel Olson (1967-2012) reflects on the state of US anarchist milieu from the 1990’s through the 2000’s. Olson was a long time anarchist writer, organizer, political […]
