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Groundbreaking Southern Worker now available online
June 19, 2012The Southern Worker, a newspaper published by the Communist Party in Birmingham and Chattanooga from 1930-37, can now be found online.
Read moreJune 20: American Railway Union is founded in Chicago
June 19, 2012It was the largest labor union of its time and one of the first industrial unions in the United States.
Read moreJune 19: workers, families occupy Akron, Youngstown, and Hawaii
June 18, 2012Today in labor history ... an Occupy trio: 1934 first sit-down strike, 1937 Women's Day Massacre and 1953 four-day general strike in Hawaii.
Read more“The Revolutionary” – an American in China’s Communist Party
June 18, 2012This is the story of a civil rights activist and union organizer who became a linguist, went to China after World War II, and joined the Chinese Communist revolution.
Read moreToday in history: England’s 99% crushed
June 15, 2012On June 15, 1381, Wat Tyler, a leader of a peasant/laborer rebellion that swept England, was killed by the king's supporters.
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