Democratic Socialists of America – San Francisco

Tag: labor

  • 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,…

  • Anna Louise Strong story

    Anna Louise Strong story Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) was one of the leaders of the Seattle General Strike in 1919 and an early advocate of communism. Although she left the United States just as the Communist Party was starting, her return visits from the Soviet Union and later from China…

  • Parsons, Lucy Gonzales

    Parsons, Lucy Gonzales Lucy Gonzales Parsons (c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was a labor organizer and orator. A dynamic, militant, self-educated public speaker and writer, she became the first American woman of color to carry her crusade for socialism across the country and overseas. Lucy was an unrelenting agitator, leading…

  • Lucy Parsons Biography

    Lucy Parsons Biography Biographies on Lucy Parsons Challenging the blatant sexism of her time, Lucy Parsons, the wife of Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons, was one of the most influential women involved in the American anarchist and labor movements.

  • Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World

    Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World I am not going to attempt to justify sabotage on any moral ground. If the workers consider that sabotage is necessary, that in itself makes sabotage moral. Its necessity is its excuse for existence. And for us to…

  • Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl

    Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl

  • The story of the Rebel Girl

    The story of the Rebel Girl “FOR PEACE and socialism is in the hearts, in the minds, on the lips of millions around the world…The ‘sun of tomorrow’ shines upon us. The future is ours.”

  • Flynn Biography

    Flynn Biography Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the most influential labor organizers of the early 20th century, and was the first female leader of the Communist Party. She lived a colorful life full of success and failure both in her professional and personal life, and dedicated her life to…

  • Notes on the 1946 General Strike

    [vimeo 43192608 w=250 h=141] When people found out that we were making work about Oakland, we were asked one question time and again: “What do you know about the general strike?” The answer was, not much. We’d never heard of it before moving to the city. For us, this video…

  • Oakland General Strike 1946

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfUmIeCTJTA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=187] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-yFDzKzLfE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=540&h=405] (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)