IWW

New Hampshire Honored its Native "Rebel Girl"—Until Locals Realized She was a Red

Two weeks after the state installed a commemorative marker near Concord, New Hampshire, the state legislature removed the monument, with Republican members calling the honoring of the labor organizer "a slap in the face" because of her association with the Communist party. 

Ahmed White: How Capital Crushed the IWW

Ahmed White's book on the IWW examines the effort to crush the radical union, and how the war on radical labor impacted free speech, political representation, and freedom of association. 

How Did Amazon Workers Win a Union? Look Back 100 Years

by Kim Kelly

The radical Black waterfront worker and organizer Ben Fletcher established a model of a democratic, antiracist, integrated labor union on Philadelphia's waterfront that echoes in the worker-led victory in establishing a union at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse. 

The Great Black Radical You've Never Heard Of

by Peter Cole

The author of a new book on an understudied Black labor radical presents context for an exerpt of an interview Ben Fletcher gave to the New York Amsterdam News, a rare surviving case of the organizer telling his own story.

Scapegoating Antifa for Starting Wildfires Distracts from the Real Causes

by Steven C. Beda

The idea of left-wing radicals starting wildfires in the Pacific Northwest dates back to timber companies blaming the Industrial Workers of the World for blazes as a way to discredit demands for workers' power through unions.