Great Depression
International Unemployment Day: The 1930 revolt against capitalist crisis
March 6, 2024On March 6, 1930, Communists organized workers around the world to demand jobs in the middle of the Great Depression. The U.S. was no exception.
Read moreNew book studies why Black women turned to the Communist Party in 1930s
June 14, 2023Historian Melissa Ford’s research explores Black women’s radical activism during the Great Depression.
Read more‘Man’s Favor Devil’s Plan’ world premiere treats racism in 1930s
November 18, 2022Make a deal with the devil, and you’ll always come out on the losing end.
Read more‘No Jim Crow in the IWO’: America’s radical Depression-era mutual aid society
July 1, 2022The International Workers Order displayed the power of working-class mutual aid in its time, and stands as an example still today.
Read morePhilip Foner completes his multi-volume U.S. labor history with the Great Depression
March 29, 2022Once again, the distinguished late historian Philip S. Foner takes his readers on an intensive whirlwind study tour of the United States, back in time and across the land. Although in this new Volume 11 of...
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