History

Anthropologist David Graeber has the best job ever, I'm convinced: He participates in and observes social justice…

"Between 1976 and 1983 thousands of young people in Argentina were secretly kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by agents…

"San Salvador de Atenco has a long history of resistance to the central government, dating from before Mexico's…

Adding a personal dimension to the full breadth of Chomsky's impressive written canon, this is an enormous chronological…

For the first time ever in English, this volume presents all of the manifestos and communiqués issued by the RAF…

One of the early Celebrate People's History posters, Ben Rubin's Emma Goldman poster is still one of the most popular in…

In 1821, Sequoyah completed the development of a Cherokee writing system. This system was used to publish the Cherokee…

The first People's History poster about New Zealand! The New Zealand Federation of Labor, the Red Feds, was the first…

James David Morgan, co-founder of the Groundswell Design Collective, put together this ode to the infamous New York City…

In 2006, an uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico against the repressive neoliberal regime of governor Ulises Ruiz occupied the…

Did you know about the anarchist alternative school system that ran in the US between 1910 and 1960? There were more…

Comics artist Seth Tobocman lived on Manhattan's Lower East Side and participated in grassroots efforts to take over…

Phoolan Devi: "What others called a crime, I called justice." February 1981: A 24 year old village woman, born into…

Gabriel Dumont and the Metis Resistance of 1869-1870 & 1885. For the Metis of North America, the political and spiritual…

In July, 1936, soon after General Franco's fascist troops revolted against the Spanish Republic, Buenaventura Durruti…

B.U.G.A. U.P. AUSTRALIA: Formed in 1978 by a group of health professionals and others disgusted at the prevalence of…

ACT UP FIGHT BACK FIGHT AIDS: Act Up Philadelphia Since 1987, ACT UP Philadelphia has been fighting for justice for…

On August 8th, 1988, hundreds of thousands of workers, students, monks, mothers, and children gathered in the streets…

In 1913 thousands of Philadelphia longshoremen formed the nation's most progressive union. Local 8 welcomed African…

"Tell me, fellow workers, how can this be? A home of the brave and the land of the free. Starvation and misery is all…

Having returned home in 494 BC after fighting to defend their country, the Plebians of Rome found the Aristocracy had…

After years of inhumane living and working conditions, in 1921 the coal miners of Appalachia answered the call to…