No Neutrals in Harlan County
Mineworkers and their families in Harlan County, Kentucky, have blockaded the railroad tracks of a deadbeat employer. It’s a reminder of the county’s heroic history of struggle and solidarity.
Articles by: Cal Winslow
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Cal Winslow is the author of Seattle General Strike, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press, along with Labor’s Civil War in California. He is editor of E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left.
When Workers Stopped Seattle
The Seattle General Strike of 1919 is a forgotten and misunderstood part of American history. But it shows that workers have the power to shut down whole cities — and to run them in our interests.
Seattle, “the Soviet of Washington”
Decades before Amazon dominated the city, Seattle was the fiery site of labor unrest, radical action — and the US's only true general strike.
A Special Obscenity
Picasso's "Guernica" still stands as a searing protest against the brutality of war and fascism.