Labor Studies and Radical History

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Previous Monthly Features

• 9-11 AntiWar Resources - Bibliography, links to organizations, antiwar news,background information, photographs, and more from the "war on terrorism."
  
• Greensboro Massacre - 1979 Nazi/Ku Klux Klan attack on anti-Klan demonstration in North Carolina.
  
• International Women's Day - The March 8th date recognized the 1908 demonstration by women needle trades workers in New York City.
  
• Joe Hill - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer, songwriter, and artist who was executed by firing squad at the Utah State Penitentiary in 1915.
  
• Lawrence Textile Strike - 1912 landmark strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts led by the IWW.
  
• Ludlow Massacre - 1913 strike by coal miners in southern Colorado led by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA).
  
• Malcolm X - Includes the article "The Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X ."
  
• Marriott Boycott vs. American Library Association - ALA chose to use the San Francisco Marriott (4th St.) as its headquarters hotel during their June 2001 annual conference at the Moscone Center. This hotel has been the site of the largest and longest running labor dispute in the city and is the subject of an ongoing boycott.
  
• May Day - Internationally recognized workers' holiday that has roots in Chicago's 1886 Haymarket Square Massacre.
  
• Pioneer Publishers 1940-1948 - Pamphlet covers from the publishing arm of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.) chronicling the fight against racism in the U.S. during World War II and the immediate postwar era.
  
• Sacco and Vanzetti - Victims of the "Red Scare" following World War I, these two martyrs were executed by the state of Massachusetts in 1927.
  
• San Francisco General Strike - Labor's answer to the police attack on striking longshoremen that killed 2 and wounded 109.
  
• Sylvia Weinstein, 1926 - 2001 - Life long socialist, feminist, and working class agitator.
  
• United Farm Workers of America - Union formed by the merger of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the National Farm Workers Association in 1965 as a result of the Delano, California grape strike and boycott.
  

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