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. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
   Great Cities of North America Since 1600
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
3. Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   A report from the 2011 Occupy movement in Los Angeles.
4. A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2001
   In Los Angeles, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right. The center is an explicitly anti-racist, anti-corporate, and anti-imperialist think-tank focusing on 'theory-driven practice'—the generation of mass campaigns of the working class and oppressed nationalities, in particular the black and Latino workers and communities. These campaigns are historically relevant on their own terms, but also have real relevance to any transition to an uncharted socialist future.
5. Wildness
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2012
   The creativity and conflict that arises when queer avant-garde performance artists intersect with a community of transgender immigrant women at historic Los Angeles bar Silver Platter.

Experts on Los Angeles in the Sources Directory

1. J. Paul Getty Museum