ILWU Local 19's history of their / our famous MTW organizer.

The Harry Bridges Institute (HBI) was founded in 1993 to meet a pressing need to educate a new generation of workers about the rich history of the labor movement; to demonstrate the benefit of union membership to the working community - and to showcase and celebrate the contributions of labor leaders as well as rank-and-file trade unionists, not only in the founding of unions but in the continued struggle for workers' rights.

A Website Dedicated to A Gay Faerie Elder

Welcome to a wealth of information about Helen Keller—letters, photographs, writings, and quotations illustrating her extraordinary life.

Helen Keller's writings as a socialist and member of the IWW.

Born Edinburgh, Scotland of Irish parents – said to have first come to Ireland in his youth as a member of the British Army – married in 1889 – active in The Socialist movement in Edinburgh in the early 1890s – came to Ireland in 1896 and founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party – lectured on socialism in Britain and U.S., 1902 – emigrated to U.S. in 1903 – member of Socialist Labour Party (U.S.) and the Industrial Workers of the World – founded the Irish Socialist Federation in New York, 1907 – returned to Ireland in 1910 as organiser for The Socialist Party of Ireland – Belfast organiser of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, 1910 – acting Gen. Sec. of I.T.G.W.U. and Command

James Connolly Society - a project of the ISRP

James Connolly was born on 5 June 1868, at The Cowgate, Edinburgh. His parents were Irish emigrants from Co Monaghan. His father worked as a manure carter, removing dung from the streets at night, and his mother was a domestic servant.

Cannon joined the Socialist Party in 1908; he left it in 1911 to join the more militant Industrial Workers of the World. In 1912-14 he was a travelling organiser and agitator for the IWW in the Midwest and during the war he was active in its Kansas City branch.

Swedish web site about Joe Hill.

Joel Hagglund, better known as Joe Hill, organized for the Industrial Workers of the World and penned radical songs to aid the labor movement.

This website is dedicated to Judi Bari. Judi was a renowned environmental, labor and social justice leader. She organized nonviolent protests against destructive corporate logging of the redwood forests. She died of breast cancer on March 2, 1997.

This section of the BPS website is devoted to writings by and about the great poet, essayist, social critic and Renaissance man, Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982). The emphasis will be on his out-of-print works (especially his numerous essays, articles and reviews), but it will also include selections from some of the in-print works. The primary aim is to introduce readers to a truly wonderful writer and encourage them to seek out whatever books of his are available. If enough interest is generated, perhaps publishers will bring more of his works back into print.

This web site is a tribute to Lucy Parsons, her work, and the causes she championed. May she continue to serve as an inspiration in the ongoing struggle for peace, justice, freedom and democracy.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn addressed students and faculty members of Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, on November 8, 1962, less than two years prior to her death. Her talk was sponsored by the History Club of the University and its chapter of the Student Peace Union. The occasion was chaired by Kenneth Owens, an assistant professor of history at the University.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's remarks were offered without notes; they were tape recorded and it is a transcript of that tape which is herewith published for the first time.

ZNet offers an archive of Noam Chomsky's online materials for our users. Select the type of content you wish to browse in the box below. You will get a list of available materials from our servers and from around the internet.

Rediscovering one of this century's most important Freethinkers, Feminists, and Socialists

An oral history of Fellow Worker Wayne Walden, taken in October 1938, about his experiences in the IWW in 1915. Source document, transcribed into electronic format.

Politically, Rexroth considered himself an anarchist and was active in the IWW and other left wing groups. He was a conscientious objector during World War II and worked to help Japanese-Americans, who were put in "detainment camps."

Encounter Books' author Kate Coleman peddles the Big Lie that Bari gave up forest activism in favor of self-aggrandizement and the FBI litigation.

Whoever put the bomb in Judi Bari's car almost certainly did it for political reasons. When the bomb didn't kill her, the bomber/bombers concocted the Lord's Avenger letter to try to pin the hit on anti-abortion fanatics.

The New Evidence case on the Judi Bari bombing is riddled with factual and logical errors. Anyone who takes an objective look has to conclude that there's no credible evidence that Mike Sweeney had anything to do with the assassination attempt on Judi Bari.

The Roger Nash Baldwin Papers document the life and career of Roger Baldwin (1884-1981), a prominent and active American civil libertarian for almost all of his prodigiously long life. Baldwin is remembered first and foremost as a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Many of the papers in this collection document his involvement with the conscientious objection movement that served as the forerunner to the ACLU and with the Union itself. He served as both its executive director from its foundation in 1920 to his retirement in 1950 and as an advisor from that date until his death in 1981. However, Baldwin cast his net much wider than just the ACLU. During the 1920s and 1930s, he was involved with various left-wing political organizations, including the Industrial Workers of the World.

The Socialist Labor Party & Daniel Deleon. DeLeon, an early founder of the IWW left the organization in 1908 over ideological differences with the organization.

The Autobiography of Mother Jones was first published by Charles Kerr in 1925. Since the copyright lapsed in 1953, it has been brought out in several editions by different publishers.

The works assembled here have been transcribed from newspapers and other periodicals that De Leon edited or for which he wrote. Most come directly from bound volumes of The People (established as a New York weekly on April 5, 1891) and the New York Daily People (1900-1914).

The Harry Bridges Project was created to promote the legacy of labor leader Harry Bridges and to aid in the public's understanding of his importance to history. Through this project we will take our audience on a journey through some of America's most turbulent years, with one of its most dynamic figures as their guide. Bridges' work, which had and still has, an enormous impact on our lives, is largely unknown outside specific labor union and academic circles. This project aims to present his story to a much wider audience through several mediums including a play, radio documentaries, a traveling exhibition, educational programs, a film project and our web site. Following the above links will guide you through

A mostly unsympathetic site (the "professor" who maintains it would do well to more carefully research the case history of Joe Hill) it is presented here for informational purposes.

A self-educated worker, Foster held various jobs and traveled to all corners of the country seeking work. He had a deep hatred of the existing order and was determined to find the way to destroy it. He joined the Socialist Party in 1901, but was expelled in 1909 as part of a left-wing faction in the state of Washington. Foster then joined the IWW.

The Official Site of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation

A tireless fighter for social justice and the rights of working people, Charlie was a supporter of the Hawaiian-based LACASA (a Latin-American solidarity organization) and the People's Fund, other projects in Europe, Australia and Japan, and an active member of the O'ahu General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW, or Wobblies).

THIS book is in three parts. The first two, Miss Keller's story and the extracts from her letters, form a complete account of her life as far as she can give it. Much of her education she cannot explain herself, and since a knowledge of that is necessary to an understanding of what she has written, it was thought best to supplement her autobiography with the reports and letters of her teacher, Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan. The addition of a further account of Miss Keller's personality and achievements may be unnecessary; yet it will help to make clear some of the traits of her character and the nature of the work which she and her teacher have done.

War is not too strong of a term to describe the state of affairs existing between the Western Federation of Miners and the Western Mine Owners' Association at the turn of the twentieth century. When the state of Idaho prosecuted William "Big Bill" Haywood in 1907 for ordering the assassination of former governor Frank Steunenberg, fifteen years of union bombings and murders, fifteen years of mine owner intimidation and greed, and fifteen years of government abuse of process and denials of liberties spilled into the national headlines. Featuring James McParland, America's most famous detective; Harry Orchard, America's most notorious mass murderer turned state's witness; Big Bill Haywood, America's most radical labor leader; and Clarence Darrow, America's most reknown defense attorney, the Haywood trial ranks as one of the most fascinating criminal trials in history.

There is much more to Helen Keller's history than a brilliant deaf and blind woman who surmounted incredible obstacles. Helen Keller was a socialist who believed she was able to overcome many of the difficulties in her life because of her class privilege - a privilege not shared by most of her blind or deaf contemporaries.