Parsons, Lucy Gonzales
Parsons, Lucy Gonzales Lucy Gonzales Parsons (c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was a labor organizer and orator. A dynamic, militant, self-educated public speaker and writer, she became the first American woman of color to carry her crusade for socialism across...
Lucy Parsons Biography
Lucy Parsons Biography Biographies on Lucy Parsons Challenging the blatant sexism of her time, Lucy Parsons, the wife of Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons, was one of the most influential women involved in the American anarchist and labor movements.
The politics of Helen Keller | International Socialist Review
The politics of Helen Keller | International Socialist Review Helen Keller is one of the most widely recognized figures in US history that people actually know very little about. That she was a serious political thinker who made important contributions...
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.”