labor history
A largely forgotten tale: Communist Party’s role in the South
June 24, 2014The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 challenges the notion that Southern white workers were incapable of action with African Americans.
Read more“Out of The Jungle” labor activist Les Orear dies at age 103
June 3, 2014Leslie Fray Orear was a union organizer for the United Packinghouse Workers of America, editor of its newspaper and co-founder and president emeritus of the Illinois History Society.
Read moreRemembering “Hy Climber” Fred Gaboury
May 30, 2014One day in 1953 Fred Gaboury invited me to come to work with him so I could witness first hand his skill in rigging a spar tree high in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. I...
Read moreCPUSA celebrates May Day with #ImagineSocialism
May 1, 2014The Communist Party USA salutes the working people of all nations on this May Day, International Workers' Day.
Read moreThe Ludlow Massacre: Never to be forgotten!
April 18, 2014The tragic, brutal and deadly attack on striking miners and their families shocked, saddened and outraged working people and most Americans.
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