The Easter Rising 100 Years On: How The Irish Revolution Fired Up American Politics

David Brundage The Conversation
Irish immigrants and their descendants (our “exiled children in America,” in the words of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic) played a leading part in the Easter Rising. But the influences and inspiration worked in the other direction as well, especially in the tumultuous years following the Easter Rising.

2 Big Labor Unions Share Efforts to Gain Power and Scale

Steven Greenhouse and Noam Scheiber The New York Times
The leaders of two of the nation’s biggest, most powerful labor unions — the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — are completing a plan that calls for unusually close cooperation in political campaigning, organizing and bargaining in states and cities across the United States.

Do We Need a Socialist Think Tank?

Jason Stahl Jacobin
Socialist politics come from below, not experts. But that doesn't mean we should cede policy debates to neoliberals.

Mapping American Social Movements; Through the 20th Century

University of Washington
This project allows us to explore the relationships between social movements by bringing them together in time and space. We map the 353 towns and cities that elected socialists to public office between 1904 and 1920. These are interactive maps that can be filtered on a number of variables while providing detailed information about places, publications, periodicals.

U.S. Labor: What's New, What's Not?

Kim Moody Against the Current
In a sense, the current debate over just how much employment is or isn’t “precarious” misses the bigger change in U.S. working-class life over the past three decades or more: the decline in living standards experienced by the vast majority of this class. One measure of this is the fall in both hourly and weekly real wages which despite some ups and downs remain below their 1972 level.