How the Chicago-based, Communist Party-associated Farm Equipment Workers union paid homage, on May Day 1938, to Chicago's anarchist martyrs of 1886

Headlines, May 1 1886.

Annual May Day plug for you to read many of the books on this list but specifically The Long Deep Grudge, a book I cannot and will not shut up about, which has deeply influenced my understanding of unions and what is possible in them.

I'm genuinely moved that my book has touched the "rust belt heart" of @mattexx.bsky.social . Made my day -- thanks!

Terrific piece providing both a razor-sharp takedown of Isserman's spurious CP history & a valuable overview of the communist organizing in the 20th century, underscoring the centrality of antiracism to those efforts. And thanks @blbalthaser.bsky.social for the shout-out to The Long Deep Grudge!