
Tag: knights of labor

On May 5, 1886, the Wisconsin National Guard opened fire on strikers in Milwaukee fighting for the 8-hour day, killing 7 workers. Coming a day after Haymarket and two days after the massacre of strike
This is the grave of Terence Powderly. Born in 1849 in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, the 11th child of Irish parents, Powderly lived the childhood of the Irish-American poor. He got sick as a kid, contrac

I don’t read much, or really any, political theory at this point in my life. It’s an important field but I have little background in it and the start-up cost of time and energy to read dif
Steve Fraser excerpts some of his new book on what we can learn today from resistance in the Gilded Age in The Nation. A bit from his selection on the Knights of Labor: Like the Populist movement, it

- The major question is, what to do about the courts?
- Can ruthlessly gerrymandered state legislatures simply toss out presidential elections in their states if they don’t like the results and just appoint more congenial representatives to the Electoral College?
- Supreme Court makes up rule to enforce reactionary political preferences, part infinity
- Fake Money in History
- Russia-Ukraine Update
- A Small Disinformation Bomb
- What counts as evidence?
- People We Should Remember
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,135
- This Time, Mitch is Totally Bargaining in Good Faith