A description of the Haymarket Square riot and its cause. Find quotes from the Chicago Tribune which called the protesters insurrectionists, and two Illinois governors who doubted the guilt of those rounded up, charged, and convicted of...

Article from the San Francisco News, July 3, 1934, reports on a union strike which occured in the San Fransico area. May be a bit violent for young students to read.

Read this historical account of the events that led to the infamous labor dispute known as the Haymarket Square Riots on May 4th of 1886.

Homepage of the national magazine for peace and social justice, THE PROGRESSIVE. Read recent news regarding social justice here.

Read about the dangers of coal mining in Pennsylvania, the emergence of unions in an attempt to protect the miners, and some of the mining disasters that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Learn about the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981 that began with a wave of strikes across Poland and the formation of the first independent labor union. The documents are from Russian archives that were writtne in response to the Polish crisis.

A short report on America by 1900: "..the American nation had established itself as a world power. The West was Won. The frontier -- the great fact of 300 years of American history -- was no more."

A brief biography of Lech Walesa and the independent labor movement in Poland. Describes how labor used strikes to improve their working conditions and qualities of life. Their struggles have been an inspiration to labor movements all...

Read an excerpt from a letter written by Chicago radical and Haymarket defendant, Albert Parsons, to the "Chicago Times" concerning Terence V. Powderly and the Haymarket riot. Also links to other related sites.

Read about the fate of August Spies, union activist and anarchist, who was involved with the demonstration at Haymarket in Chicago.