Arvind Dilawar

Antebellum slaveholders weren't content with an economic and social system based on trafficking in human flesh in the South alone.

In 1921, twenty thousand armed miners in West Virginia marched on the coal bosses and were met with bombs and submachine guns.

Mexican-American workers have a long tradition of radical organizing, stretching back to the days of the IWW and the mid-century Communist Party.

By the end of his life, inspired by the radicalism of the Black Panthers, Baldwin was again ready to proclaim himself a socialist.

On the Black labor organizers who fought for civil rights after Reconstruction and through the twentieth century.

Led by A. Philip Randolph, Black Pullman porters secured dignity on the job — and laid the foundation for the modern Civil Rights Movement.

In the 1930s, Socialist and Communist organizers tried to help Black sharecroppers rise up against their oppressors.

In the Jim Crow South, the Alabama Communist Party distinguished itself as a champion of racial and economic justice.

A conversation with historian Peter Cole about his recent book, Dockworker Power.