Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Archive
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Archive A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, she was involved in the campaign against the conviction in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1936 Flynn joined the Communist Party and wrote a bi-weekly column for women’s...
Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World
Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World I am not going to attempt to justify sabotage on any moral ground. If the workers consider that sabotage is necessary, that in itself makes sabotage moral. Its...
Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl
Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl
The story of the Rebel Girl
The story of the Rebel Girl “FOR PEACE and socialism is in the hearts, in the minds, on the lips of millions around the world…The ‘sun of tomorrow’ shines upon us. The future is ours.”
Flynn Biography
Flynn Biography Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the most influential labor organizers of the early 20th century, and was the first female leader of the Communist Party. She lived a colorful life full of success and failure both in...
Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM
Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964)
Women and Marxism: Marxists Internet Archive
Women and Marxism: Marxists Internet Archive This subject section has been created to provide broad documentation both on women’s issues and Marxism, and also a space for women’s writings that are significant, but transcriptions not currently volumous or organized enough...
Communists in Harlem
Communists in Harlem Organizing against racism during the Great Depression Communists in Harlem February 24, 2006 WITH THE republication of Mark Naison’s book Communists in Harlem During the Depression (University of Illinois Press, 2005), a new generation of socialists will...
Notes on the 1946 General Strike
When people found out that we were making work about Oakland, we were asked one question time and again: “What do you know about the general strike?” The answer was, not much. We’d never heard of it before moving to...