Coke’s International War on Workers
The Coca-Cola Company uses outsourcing to drive wages down, shuts down plants for unionizing, fires (and sometimes murders) workers for joining unions, and pays poverty wages wherever it can get away with it.
Towards a Global History of the Early IWW
Understanding the history of the Industrial Workers of the World requires taking a global view. The common approach of looking only at the union’s US history, or looking at it only in one country, is inadequate and obscures transnational patterns.
Smashing Dissent
Police brutality towards protesters at this year’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions rose to levels not seen at a convention since 1968. The police conducted preemptive raids on activist houses, arrested journalists, attacked demonstrations with explosives, rubber bullets, and a variety of chemical weapons, spied on organizers, and filed “terrorism” charges against dissidents.
Early Reparations Movements
Review of My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Francis Berry
Suppression of Radical Unionism in the US
Review of “The Rise and Repression of Radical Labor” by Daniel Fusfeld
The Lynching of Ward Churchill
The furor surrounding Professor Ward Churchill and his criticisms of US foreign policy are premised on racism. Churchill's criticisms are basically right and he should not be fired.