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 […]
Salon, “Heather Heyer picked her side”
The IWW, an anarcho-syndicalist union whose members are called “Wobblies,” was known for organizing across lines of race and ethnicity. Its direct actions and its willingness to recruit African Americans and immigrants led to its violent repression by government agents and corporate goons in the wake of World War I. Continue Reading
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
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 […]