Category: Articles
Snapshots of Popular Resistance: April Then and Now
Working Class History interactive map of resistance. Credit: Working Class History Link copied! For ten years, Working Class History has meticulously documented small and grandiose […]
Working Class History: Fighting for a Better Past!
New York police violently attacking unemployed workers in Tompkins Square Park, 1874. Credit: Matt Morgen, Library of Congress Archive Link copied! “By imparting new meaning […]
After Ten Years of War, Women Face a Dark Age in Yemen
Shorooq, a displaced from woman from Saada, at Dharawan camp in Sana’a. ©Laura Silvia Battaglia Link copied! It was August 2022, sometime around 3 a.m., […]
Bodies in Revolt: The Everyday Resistance of Iranian Women to State Oppression
The women of Iran are not waiting for permission to be free. They are already living their freedom in acts both grand and small, in whispered acts of rebellion and in bold, fearless steps into the public eye.
The Woman Who Talks With the River
She talks with the river about life in the city, herself, her kids, the past, the present, like with a best friend. When sad, she shares it with Drina. When happy, too. Drina is the first to know what is happening in her life. The river knows her fears, her dreams, her truths.
On Digital Memory: Syria Taught the World the Value of Digital Evidence, and Just How Easily It Can Be Erased
For many researchers, journalists, analysts, and activists, the Syrian Civil War taught hard lessons about how easily a dictatorial fascist regime can target and erase digital memory. But the fight to preserve the memory must go on.
Ten Years After Its Liberation From ISIS, Kobane Fights a New Existential War
Townspeople from all walks of life describe the current phase of fighting as an existential war, a question of existence and non-existence for the town and its Kurdish identity. Many have personally endured the threat of ethnic cleansing when the Islamic State (ISIS) besieged the city ten years earlier and they are determined to defend their city once again.
Our Way to See/a. The Transforming Landscapes of Central Mediterranean Migrations
We see this politics of solidarity as part of an already ongoing form of struggle—one foremost carried on by people that we don’t save, but encounter in our rescuing initiatives.
Invisible Borders, Vital Care: How Migrant Women Sustain Europe’s Aging Societies
A group of migrant domestic workers united rallying for their rights. Holding banners with illustrated depictions of their labor to advocate for fair treatment and […]