Solidarity Forever.

June 15, 2026

Stonewall Was a Workers' Riot

The people at the front of the Stonewall crowd were sex workers, bar staff, and homeless queer kids whose labor the state had criminalized. The bar was a Mafia bottle club because New York refused to license it. The cops took a cut, and raided it anyway. That is a labor story.

June 8, 2026

They Killed the Singing Widow

On September 14, 1929, a mob of Loray Mill employees shot Ella May Wiggins dead in broad daylight in front of more than 50 witnesses. A North Carolina jury acquitted every one of them in under 30 minutes. Her crime was organizing Black and white Southern textile workers into the same union, and writing songs nobody could forget.

June 1, 2026

The Women Who Ran Lawrence

In nine weeks in 1912, 20,000 immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, speaking more than two dozen languages, shut down the largest woolen company in America. The ones holding it together were the women.