Workers in my city, Melbourne Australia, won the eight hour day in 1856. It was a hard and bloody battle, and a hundred years later, my great grandmother spoke with pride of her father’s involvement. It was a victory that inspired workers around the world. .. and in USA lead to the campaign in Chicago [...]

For almost 70 years, Lucy Parsons fought for the rights of the poor and disenfranchised in the face of an increasingly oppressive industrial economic system. Her radical activism challenged the racist and sexist sentiment in a time when it was assumed that women were biologically determined to stay at home barefoot and pregnant. This division [...]