Category: Red Talks
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IWW History Project
IWW History Project Links to photos and documents, timeline of events, maps of strikes, IWW newspapers, and more.
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Bread and Roses: The Lawrence Textile Strike
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKnqhGpc8M?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=187] (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Open Collections Program: Women Working, Lawrence Strike of 1912
Open Collections Program: Women Working, Lawrence Strike of 1912 A history of the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 led by the I.W.W., commonly known as the “Bread and Roses” strike.
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History of the Socialist Party
If the defining characteristic of an American third party is finishing third in a presidential contest, then the Socialist Party has been the country’s quintessential third party, recording seven third- place finishes from 1904 to 1944. And the Socialists arguably rank with the Populists and the Prohibitionists as the big…
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KCTS 9 – History Making: General Strike
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv1TOtm3CGE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] In 1919, workers in Seattle staged the first general strike in the United States. Sixty thousand union men and women walked off their jobs in shipyards, bakeries, restaurants, and lumber mills. This five day citywide shutdown was an important first step in establishing the power of the worker,…