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  1. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1952
    A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
  2. Centralia Massacre
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A violent and bloody incident that occurred in the town of Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919 during a parade celebrating the first anniversary of Armistice Day.
  3. Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926).
  4. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
  5. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  6. Hill, Joe
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
  7. Industrial Workers of the World
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    A revolutionary industrial union founded in 1905. Wobblies were mostly unskilled, low-status migrant workers. The IWW advocated the organization of all workers into one body and supported direct action as the only form of protest open to immigrant workers, who were excluded from the electoral process.
  8. Industrial Workers of the World
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
  9. James P. Cannon on the Legacy of the IWW
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Formed in direct opposition to the craft unionism of the American Federation of Labor, the IWW drew its membership largely from young workers who took to the road to find work where they could -- as railroad construction workers, lumberjacks, metal miners and seamen. Taught by harsh experience that the bosses could not be overpowered at the ballot box, those who formed the IWW called for "One Big Union" that would serve as the instrument to seize the means of production from the capitalist class.
  10. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
  11. Marxism and Freedom
    From 1776 to Today

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
  12. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
    From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
  13. Mexico in Labor's Crucible
    Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
  14. Plunderbund and Proletariat
    A History of the IWW in B.C.

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
  15. Raising the Workers' Flag
    The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
  16. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  17. Seeds of Fire - January 2
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  18. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  19. Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    The stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl”), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the struggle for birth control access, bohemian radicals John Reed and Louise Bryant, field-hand revolts and lumber workers’ strikes, wartime witch hunts, government prosecutions and mob lynching, Mexican-American uprisings in Baja, and Mexican peasant revolts led by Wobblies, hilarious and sentimental songs created and later revived—all are here, and much more.
  20. Wobblies & Zapatistas
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
  21. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  22. Working Class Experience
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.

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