Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 – Selma James
1 1
In 1972 Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as “workers” and their struggles viewed as outside of the class struggle. Based on her political training in the Johnson-Forest...
15h ago
1 1
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
22h ago
0 1
Posters designed by WCH celebrating the lives of various rebels, radicals and revolutionaries.
on Sun, 8AM
0 1
Clothes, accessories and other merchandise celebrating radical history and politics related to animals, from wild cats to riot dogs.
on Sat, 8AM
Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
0 1
History is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals—it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere have walked out, sat down, risen up, and fought back against exploitation, discrimination,...
on Wed, 3PM
0 1
Books about radical and people's history, politics and culture. Be sure to also check out WCH Favourites, where we've put together a curated list of our favourite books from our shop.
on Tue, 4PM
0 0
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
on Nov 7
Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe
0 0
Before the Golden Age of comic books, there was Mr. Block: a bumbling, boss-loving, anti-union blockhead, brought to life over a hundred years ago by subversive cartoonist Ernest Riebe. A dedicated labour activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Riebe dreamed up his iconic,...
on Nov 7
0 1
WCH people's history accessories: tote bags, hats and more
on Nov 5
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women - Silvia Federici
0 0
Book by Silvia Federici which is a feminist call to arms providing new ways of understanding the methods in which women resist victimization and offers a reminder that reconstructing the memory of the past is crucial for the struggles of the present. Description: We are witnessing a new surge...
on Oct 31
A History of Pan-African Revolt – C.L.R. James
0 0
222 Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global Black resistance. Description Robin D.G. Kelley’s substantial introduction contextualizes the work in the history and ferment of...
on Oct 30
0 0
This product is currently out of stock for non-US customers. It can still be ordered, but there will be a delay while our supplier restocks. For US customers, it is still available as normal. Manifestos, speeches, articles, and letters from the German Revolution. The German Revolution erupted...
on Oct 29
0 0
Books about radical and people's history, politics and culture. Be sure to also check out WCH Favourites, where we've put together a curated list of our favourite books from our shop.
on Oct 28
0 0
Episode on the early history of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union in Australia, in conversation with Paula DeAngelis. Paula is a historian and contributed to Wobblies of the W…
on Oct 28
Search: 14 results found for "black cat"
0 0
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
on Oct 27
Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
0 0
Note that these books are shipping now to customers in the US. For customers outside the US, this is a preorder and your order should ship November-December 2024. The first graphic novel published by Working Class History, written by Raymond Tyler, illustrated by Summer McClinton. Edited by Paul...
on Oct 22
0 0
Books about radical and people's history, politics and culture. Be sure to also check out WCH Favourites, where we've put together a curated list of our favourite books from our shop.
on Oct 21
Collectives in the Spanish Revolution - Gaston Leval
0 0
A unique account of worker-run collectives in Revolutionary Spain combining eyewitness documentation with keen analysis of a unique historical moment. Description: Revolutionary Spain came about with an explosion of social change so advanced and sweeping that it remains widely studied as one of...
on Oct 20
The Workers’ Way to Freedom and Other Council Communist Writings – Anton Pannekoek
0 0
Anton Pannekoek (1873–1960), the Dutch astronomer and Marxist revolutionary, was a key theoretician of council communism—a Marxist alternative to both Leninism and Social Democracy that instead emphasized working-class self-emancipation through workers’ councils. The first half of this book...
on Oct 20
0 0
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
on Oct 19
0 0
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
on Oct 19
0 0
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
on Oct 18
The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights – Robin Blackburn
0 0
Available with shipping in the US and UK only. How slavery shaped the market economy and abolitionists gave us our ideals The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of...
on Oct 18
WCL 5-6: DD Johnston’s proletarian apocalypse
0 2
In this two-part episode, Working Class Literature speak to DD Johnston about his new novel, Disnaeland, about a working-class Scottish community’s response to societal collapse. We also disc…
on Oct 18
The Permanent Guillotine: Writings of the Sans-Culottes – Mitchell Abidor, ed
0 0
When the Bastille was stormed on July 14, 1789, it wasn’t a crowd of breeches-wearing professionals that attacked the prison, freed the internees, and killed its superintendent, carrying off his head on a pike. It was the working people of Paris, who didn’t wear breeches, the sans-culottes. In...
on Oct 18
0 0
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
on Oct 17
E10-11: GI resistance in Vietnam
0 0
During the later years of the Vietnam war, a little-known but powerful rebellion developed within the ranks of the US forces. In this two-part episode, we talk about the GI resistance to the war wi…
on Oct 17
0 0
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
on Oct 10
Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
0 0
A monumental work by Franklin Rosemont, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies – songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr – Joe Hill. Description It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that...
on Oct 8
The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 – Peter Kropotkin
0 0
The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793 is Peter Kropotkin’s most substantial historical work. In it he presents a people’s history of the world-shaking events of the Revolution and shows the key role the working men and women of the towns and countryside played in it. Without the constant...
on Oct 5
0 0
Our T-Shirt of the Month for October 2023, made of 100% organic cotton by a worker-owned co-operative, and supporting Mexican Indigenous organising and grassroots labour unions in South Asia. This month's Working Class History T-shirt of the Month brings us to the Mexico of 1968 when many...
on Oct 2
Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics – Gabriel Kuhn
0 0
Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by moneymakers and corrupt politicians. From its roots in working-class England to...
on Oct 2
0 0
Every month we produce a 100% organic cotton 'T-Shirt of the Month' in collaboration with dna merch, made by a workers' co-operative. Proceeds support the co-op, grassroots labour unions in South Asia and our historical research. Find out more about this collaboration on our 'T-Shirt of the...
on Oct 1
TSOTM Oct 2024: Oscar Wilde True Friends
0 0
Our T-Shirt of the Month for October 2024, made of 100% organic cotton by a worker-owned co-operative, and supporting grassroots labour unions in South Asia. It is dedicated both to Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, who was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland, and to all our true...
on Oct 1
0 0
The First Socialist Schism chronicles the conflicts in the International Working Men’s Association (the First International, 1864–1877), which represents an important milestone in the history of political ideas and socialist theory. In defending their autonomy, federations in the International...
on Sep 28
No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno – Charlie Allison
0 0
Lively, incendiary, and inspiring, No Harmless Power follows the life of Nestor Makhno, who organized a seven-million-strong anarchist polity during the Russian Civil War and developed Platformist anarchism during his exile in Paris as well as advising other anarchists like Durruti on tactics...
on Sep 26
0 0
Our T-Shirt of the Month for September 2024, made of 100% organic cotton by a worker-owned co-operative, and supporting grassroots labour unions in South Asia. It is dedicated to all Basque people who fought against fascism during the Spanish Civil War. “Gudari” means fighter in Basque. In...
on Sep 25
0 0
Podcast episode about the history of the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World in Canada. We speak with historian and author Mark Leier about the union’s organising work amo…
on Sep 25
0 0
Books about radical and people's history, politics and culture. Be sure to also check out WCH Favourites, where we've put together a curated list of our favourite books from our shop.
on Sep 24
0 0
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
on Sep 22
0 0
Books about radical and people's history, politics and culture. Be sure to also check out WCH Favourites, where we've put together a curated list of our favourite books from our shop.
on Sep 19
0 0
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.
on Sep 18
Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo – Jules Marchal
0 0
Available with shipping in the US only. The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild, translated by Michael Thom. In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the...
on Sep 14
0 0
Double podcast episode about the South Korean movements of 1987 which overthrew the US-backed military dictatorship and won big improvements for workers. In these episodes we speak with Kim Jin-soo…
on Sep 13
0 0
Books about radical and people's history, politics and culture. Be sure to also check out WCH Favourites, where we've put together a curated list of our favourite books from our shop.
on Sep 12
WCL 7-9: Chinese migrant worker poetry
0 0
Three-part podcast series on the migrant worker poetry scene in China, the precarious social conditions in which these poets live and, of course, the poetry they produce.
on Sep 12
Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader
0 0
Edited by Mark Bray and Robert H. Haworth On October 13, 1909, Francisco Ferrer, the notorious Catalan anarchist educator and founder of the Modern School, was executed by firing squad. The Spanish government accused him of masterminding the Tragic Week rebellion, while the transnational...
on Sep 8
0 0
Double podcast episode about Mildred Fish-Harnack, the US-born woman at the centre of the underground resistance to Nazism in Berlin during World War II. In conversation with Rebecca Donner, Mildre…
on Sep 7
Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars – Preorder
0 0
Note that this is currently a preorder. Orders should ship to US customers in September 2024, and customers in the rest of the world October-November 2024. The first graphic novel published by Working Class History, written by Raymond Tyler, illustrated by Summer McClinton. Edited by Paul Buhle...
on Sep 6
0 1
Books about radical and people's history, politics and culture. Be sure to also check out WCH Favourites, where we've put together a curated list of our favourite books from our shop.
on Sep 5