As we move closer to the elections, we hear more and more racist rhetoric against immigrants, particularly coming from right-wing Republican figures like Donald Trump. He has referred to immigrants as “not human” and “animals” who are “poisoning the blood of our...
In 1934, the auto parts manufacturing center of Toledo, Ohio was in the grip of the Great Depression, which began with the 1929 stock market crash. One in three workers in this city of 275,000 were unemployed and on relief. The rest of the Toledo working class...
On the morning of July 17, 1936, right-wing generals in Spain ordered their troops to begin occupying dozens of towns and cities throughout the country. Over the next three days, troops loyal to right-wing army generals marched out of their barracks and attempted to...
(this is a repost; originally written in 2021; slightly edited) 87 years ago, longshore workers all along the Pacific coast were on strike. The strike began in May 1934, during the Great Depression. At the time, the conditions that existed were brutal. Every day,...
On June 26th, 1894, members of the American Railway Union began a boycott in support of striking workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois (today part of Chicago’s South Side). This boycott meant workers all across the railway industry refused to...
