Tablet Magazine, “Dear Antifas: A Note About Your Ancestor”
Tresca was the Cold War anarcho-syndicalist. He was a super-radical who, even so, did not remove himself from the larger American system. My old friend Daniel Bell had the misfortune of seeing Tresca’s body on the sidewalk at Fifth Avenue and 15th Street, after the assassination, in January 1943. That was a terrible event. Tresca’s […]
People, “The Unfair and Ridiculous Reasons Black Cats Are Considered Unlucky”
Cat-hating carried over with the Puritans into America, and the Salem Witch Trials cemented it as an everlasting part of witchcraft and cat lore. Fast forward a few hundred years, and black cats became a symbol of something else entirely: The labor movement, and in particular, anarchism. Continue Reading
New York Daily News, “The unsolved murder of famous anarchist Carlo Tresca”
Meanwhile, he was also a noisy anti-Stalinist, energetically crusading to keep Reds out of the unions, and the Communists all hated him too. Chiefly, Tresca was a formal anarchist, meaning he wanted down with pretty much everything. Everybody in the phone book might have been a suspect. Continue Reading
Tucson Sentinel, “Bisbee hosts remembrances of infamous deportation of union miners”
The radical International Workers of the World, a group of anarchists, socialists and syndicalists known as the Wobblies, stepped in and started organizing in the early months of 1917. They called a strike on June 26 after their demands weren’t met by Phelps Dodge. Continue Reading
Washington City Paper, ” Democracy in Crisis: Inauguration Day Protesters Face Decades in Jail”
It was almost like a smaller, less intense recap of inauguration day as socialist Wobblies waving red Industrial Workers of the World and the black masked anarchist ranks of ANTIFA marched up to the line of police officers standing at attention outside the H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse in D.C. on May 1. Continue Reading
Pacific Standard, “Meet Antifa, the Most Reasonable People in America”
In 1924, anarchist lumberjacks allied with the Industrial Workers of the World waged a “drawn battle” with a Ku Klux Klan recruitment drive in Greenville, Maine. American anti-fascists have been fighting a mostly quiet conflict with domestic Nazis at punk rock venues and small white-nationalist gatherings for decades, but, as fascists have snuck their collective […]
Denverite, “LOOK: ‘Is Colorado in America?'”
It was these conditions that prompted Western Federation of Miners President Charles Moyer and Secretary-Treasurer William “Big Bill” Haywood — who would go on to found the anarchist union Industrial Workers of World — to make the American flag posters with each stripe of the flag spelling out a different grievance under the title, “Is […]