by LiFT Theater Company/Press Release Little Falls is pleased to welcome the return of their very special guest later this month for a weekend of historic celebration of the Little Falls IWW Textile Strike of 1912. LiFT brings their revival of Strike Story to Travelodge in Little Falls, […]
by Life Long Wobbly The last general strike in the US was in Oakland in 1946. That year there were 6 city-wide general strikes, plus nationwide strikes in steel, coal, and rail transport. More than 5 million workers struck in the biggest strike wave of US history. So […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School In preparation for May Day, otherwise known as International Workers’ Day, on May first, the Mohawk Valley Freedom School will host a series of classes focused on workers’ rights, unions, labor history and activism. The first class is this Thursday, April 7 from […]
by Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn/Love and Rage This list of five revolutionary women from the Mohawk Valley was written in celebration of International Working Women’s Day, a holiday that has very radical roots in the labor and socialist movements, and in the tumultuous textile strikes that swept across New York […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage “Don’t mourn – organize!” These were the powerful words written in a letter to fellow union agitator Big Bill Haywood by the revolutionary immigrant troubadour Joe Hill in 2015. Or so the story goes. Hill was falsely accused of a murder in […]
The January/February issue for the Industrial Worker, the newspaper for the labor union the Industrial Workers of the World has just hit the stands (and the web). The IWW is also active in the greater Utica area and upstate New York. You can visit the IWW website at […]
(This interview was originally conducted by Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn and published in 2010 in the IWW’s Industrial Worker and on ZNet) I understand you spent some time in the Bay Area growing up. What were you politically involved with back then? Howie Hawkins (HH): Well, Willie Mays was a […]
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