labor history
St. Louis says farewell to Jim Wilkerson, Black labor leader and CBTU founder
November 8, 2024Wilkerson was part of a larger nationwide movement against racism and for equality within largely white skilled trades.
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Lenin in Seattle
November 7, 2024The story of how Russia’s revolutionary leader influenced the American workers who rose up in the Seattle General Strike of 1919.
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May Day Greetings Book 2024: Save democracy, stop the genocide
April 30, 2024Check out what our readers and supporters have to say on International Workers Day.
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Woolworth’s Sit-Down Strike: When women shut down the world’s biggest retailer
March 5, 2024From the archives: Learning from the UAW’s Flint Sit-Down Strike, young women workers set an example for how to organize and win in the low-wage retail sector in 1937.
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McCarthyism takes over the U.S. labor movement
February 15, 2024From the Daily Worker archives 1950: CIO caves to anti-communists, expels left-led unions.
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