Modern School

Whipping an Enslaved Male , Serro Frio, Brazil, ca. 1770s March 2, 1807 - Congress abolished the African slave trade. The first Amer...

1910 Photo of Some of the Strike Participants February 15, 1910 – “The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand," International Ladies...

1941    No Strike Pledges by AFL and CIO:  The major unions sold out their members in the name of fighting fascism.  (Sources: UHWO ) ...

1933    National Industrial Recovery Act (NiRA):  Companies that abided by NiRA codes for minimum wages and maximum working hours could...

December 4, 1906  – The National Federation of Postal Clerks was chartered on this date. (from the  Daily Bleed ) December 4, 1951 ...

Francois-Noel Babeuf (public domain) November 23, 1760  – French revolutionary Francois-Noel Babeuf was born on this date in St. Q...

November 15, 1881  – The  "Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions" (FOTLU), a precursor to the  American Federation ...

November 9, 1933  – 200 assembly-line workers at Nash automobile in Kenosha, Wisconsin, walked out in protest of the new piece rates. Own...

October 7, 1879 Radical labor organizer and song writer Joe Hill was born in Gavle, Sweden. Hill was an organizer for the Industrial W...

August 31, 1909 —Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish anarchist educator and creator of the first Modern Schools (Escuelas Modernas), was charged...

August 13, 1889 – London Dock Workers', led by Ben Tillett and John Burns, launched a strike. (From the Daily Bleed ) August 13,...

Whipping an Enslaved Male , Serro Frio, Brazil, ca. 1770s March 2, 1807 - Congress abolished the African slave trade. The first America...

1910 Photo of Some of the Strike Participants February 15, 1910 – “The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand," International Ladies'...

December 4, 1906 – The National Federation of Postal Clerks was chartered on this date. (from the Daily Bleed ) December 4, 1951 - Wal...