Celebrating International Workers' Day

Every year on the first of May, International Workers' Day—also recognized as May Day, Labour Day, and Worker's Day—marks the struggle of working people worldwide in their fight for dignity, freedom, and the fruits of their labor. Here is a sampling of books, zines, and more to help you get in the spirit. Labor is entitled to all it creates! 

P.S. We can't fit it all here, but check out our Labor tag for more like this.
P.P.S. We also carry a lot of cool and thematically appropriate posters. Hang them on your wall or bring them to the march! 

Big Red Songbook : 250+ IWW Songs! (2nd Edition)

Big Red Songbook : 250+ IWW Songs! (2nd Edition)

by Archie Green Editor, David Roediger Editor, Franklin Rosemont Editor, Salvatore Salerno Editor, Tom Morello Foreword and Utah Phillips Afterword

In Chicago of 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labor groups united to form One Big Union—the Industrial…

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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

by A.B. Chitty Author, Priscilla Murolo Author and Joe Sacco Author

Spanning America's history, from its colonization to the Trump era, this comprehensive history explores what it has…

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Patch #240: General Strike

Patch #240General Strike

by Cliff Harper Author

In Europe, strikes are a fundamental part of democracy. It's a necessary tool for us to resist the oppression of them…

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$20 Superpack: Labor Stories

$20 Superpack: Labor Stories

by Moe Bowstern Author, Bill Brown Author, Kate Lopresti Author, Dave Roche Author, Sarah Royal Author and Super Pack! Author

It's important to think about the labor that creates everything that you touch, purchase, and make use in your day. So…

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Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s

Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s

by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Author, Walker C Smith Author and William E Trautmann Author

The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy. Even then, the tactics of direct…

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The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement

The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement

by Stanley Aronowitz Author

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor…

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Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery

Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery

by Starhawk Author

Use your power to overthrow the powers that be. Starhawk examines how we can make meaningful change in our communities…

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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law

Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law

by Daniel Gross Author and Staughton Lynd Author

Laws - especially labor laws - are often written in difficult to parse language. However, it doesn't have to be…

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Sticker #524: I Would Prefer Not To

Sticker #524I Would Prefer Not To

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! Let everyone know that you'd just rather not with this white whale of a sticker. Herman…

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Feminista Frequencies: Community Building Through Radio in the Yakama Valley

Feminista Frequencies: Community Building Through Radio in the Yakama Valley

by Monica De La Torre Author

In the 1970s, Chicana and Chicano activists faced challenges organizing migrants farmworkers and other Spanish-speaking…

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Patch #016: Organize

Patch #016Organize

by Cliff Harper Author

Want to change the world? Here's your first step. Organize! That’s one of the most important steps towards getting any…

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Strike!: Revised, Expanded, and Updated Edition

Strike!: Revised, Expanded, and Updated Edition

by Jeremy Brecher Author

Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in…

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Unions for Beginners

Unions for Beginners

by C.M. Butzer Author, David Cogswell Author and For Beginners Author

Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Having a safe working environment? Unions made it possible. As the…

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Punching Out: Solidarity on the Factory Floor

Punching Out: Solidarity on the Factory Floor

by Martin Glaberman Author

In 1952 Marty Glaberman was a Detroit autoworker who had participated in wildcat strikes and UAW union policing of…

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Sticker #242: Record Profits = Unpaid Wages

Sticker #242Record Profits = Unpaid Wages

CEOs like to think that they are the reason their companies are valuable. But you know better. Slap up this sticker to…

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This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer

This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer

by Lori Fox Author

In this timely and powerful account, author Lori Fox examines capitalism and patriarchy through the lens of their own…

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Stone Butch Blues

Stone Butch Blues

by Leslie Feinberg Author

Join lesbian Jess Goldberg for sexual travails and a journey through the confusing, strict ideas of gender and how…

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Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution

Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution

by Peter Kropotkin Author, N.O. Bonzo Illustrator, David Graeber Foreword, Andrej Grubacic Foreword, Ruth Kinna Foreword, Allan Antliff Afterword and GATS (Graffiti Against the System) Illustrator

One hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin is still one of the most inspirational figures of the anarchist…

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Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America

Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America

by Dana Frank Author

This book chronicles how Bananeras, the female banana workers in Latin America, have been waging a powerful revolution…

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Kids on Strike!

Kids on Strike!

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Author

Reaching the early 1900s, almost two million children were employed in the United States—sorting coal in Pennsylvania,…

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Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-first Century Resistance

Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-first Century Resistance

by Ajamu Nangwaya Editor and Michael Truscello Editor

The question posed by the title is most often asked by people who have no idea what it's like to be poor and who…

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Patch #006: Solidarity

Patch #006Solidarity

by Cliff Harper Author

You don't have to be Émile Durkheim or Peter Kropotkin to appreciate the message of unity, cohesion and mutual aid…

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As You Were #5: A Punk Comix Anthology: This Job Sucks!

As You Were #5: A Punk Comix Anthology: This Job Sucks!

by Mitch Clem Editor, Janelle Hessig Cover, Avi Ehrlich Editor, Julia Wertz Contributor, Lee Baillie Contributor, 3 more

Shitty jobs? They happen. The 5th volume of As You Were, a punk comic anthology, features graphic novel short stories…

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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

by Dan Georgakas Author and Marvin Surkin Author

This book chronicles the formation of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black…

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Sticker #194: I Didn't Go To Work Today

Sticker #194I Didn't Go To Work Today

by Mike Roth Author

Freedom is just an illusion, until you take hold of it. Cut class, skip work, frolic out of bounds. Take back that…

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$25 Superpack: Get Activated!

$25 Superpack: Get Activated!

by Sascha Altman DuBrul Author, Greg Farrell Author, Tomas Moniz Author, Super Pack! Author and Raffaella Tolicetti Author

Time to shake up the world, and shake up your life. These books (and a zine) contain motivating and actionable stories…

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Dynamite!: The Story of Class Violence in America

Dynamite!: The Story of Class Violence in America

by Louis Adamic Author

A history book that's nothing but action, "Dynamite!" is all about violent acts committed in the name of class equality.…

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Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks

Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks

by Daniel Gross Author and Staughton Lynd Author

Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on…

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On The Books: A Graphic Tale of Working Woes at NYC's Strand Bookstore

On The Books: A Graphic Tale of Working Woes at NYC's Strand Bookstore

by Greg Farrell Author

A David and Goliath story, On The Books is the first-hand comic strip account of the labor struggle at NYC’s legendary…

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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South

Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South

by Neal Shirley Author and Saralee Stafford Author

It's one of the biggest fights against injustice you've never even heard about. In 1891, coal companies in eastern…

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