Blavity, “While We’re Celebrating Labor Day, Please Remember To Honor Unsung Labor Hero Lucy Parsons”
The department knew her well. Parsons was often arrested for her demonstrations, speeches and distribution of anarchist literature. She continued her work until her death at the age of 82 in a house fire on March 7, 1942. Today, although we’re still fighting for pay equality and equal representation in the workplace, and have so much more […]
Forbes, “10 Inspiring Quotes From Women In The Labor Movement”
“The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.” – Lucy Parsons, radical anarchist, labor activist, and socialist. 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
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Eyewitness 1892: Frick returns to work via streetcar”
Frick, the chairman of Carnegie Steel, had been sitting at his desk in the Hussey Building on Pittsburgh’s Fifth Avenue when he was attacked by anarchist Alexander Berkman. The assault occurred on the afternoon of July 23, and it turned much of the public in Pittsburgh against the workers who were on strike at the […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Eyewitness 1892: Attack on Frick hurts Homestead strike”
The shooter, an anarchist named Alexander Berkman, also stabbed the chairman of the Carnegie steel company with a homemade dagger. Frick survived but Berkman’s attempted assassination of the industrial magnate turned public opinion against the men who were occupying the Carnegie works in Homestead. Continue Reading
Metro, “Who you gonna call? A real-life ghostbuster”
“The history of spiritualism in America ties into the history of the suffragette movement, the abolition movement, the labor movement, the anarchist movement,” says Hendrix. “So many people get hung up on the question of whether these mediums were actually talking to spirits or committing fraud, but if you ignore that question you’re still left […]
The New York Times, “The Majestic Marble Quarries of Northern Italy”
Over the centuries, the strange geology of the marble mountains has produced an equally strange human community — strange even by the standards of Italy’s fractious regional subcultures. The people there live in white towns, breathing white dust, speaking their own dialects, nursing their own politics. There is a proud history, in and around Carrara, […]
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
ABC Oakland, CA, “I-Team: Oakland building fire appears to fit string of suspected arsons”
Some workers in hard hats told us they suspect the motive was the use of non-union labor. Some neighbors believed anarchists set the blaze. Continue Reading
CBS Pittsburgh, “Renowned Actor Commemorates 125th Anniversary Of Battle Of Homestead”
Two weeks later Frick would survive an assassination attempt after being shot in his downtown office by the anarchist Alexander Berkman — sympathy for the workers diminished, the governor sent in the state militia and the union was broken. But rather than dusty, old history, Rylance says the battle was over machines replacing labor — […]