history

Women’s sufferage amendment sent to states

The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

Today in labor history: On May 31st 1921 the trial of Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco began in Dedham Massachusetts. The trial was widely held to be unfair and both were executed. Sacco and Venzetti were...

Labor history: U.S. autoworkers and the Soviet Union

Ford Motors signed a "technical assistance" contract with the Soviet Union.

Brazil probes dictatorship’s human rights abuses

Brazil's government will now investigate human rights violations committed by the right-wing military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.

Steelworkers remember martyrs, fight for living

The Republic Steel mill in south Chicago is sacred ground for the American labor movement.