In the Smithy of His Soul: A Steel Worker and Scholar ~~ PETER LINEBAUGH

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/30/in-the-smithy-of-his-soul-a-steel-worker-scholar/

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Lucy Parsons, Woman of Will

https://archive.iww.org/history/biography/LucyParsons/1/

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Ben Fletcher’s One Big Union ~~ Robin D.G. Kelly

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/ben-fletchers-one-big-union

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Ben Fletcher, once one of the most important black labor figures in the United States, has faded into obscurity. But he couldn’t be more relevant to the most urgent political projects of the present.

The General Strike ~~ Bill Haywood

https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Haywood/GeneralStrike/

Among the best parts are in the questions and answers at the end.

How The Working People Can Be Saved From The Oppression Of The Landowners And Capitalists For Ever ~~ V. Lenin

 

How The Working People Can Be Saved From The Oppression Of The Landowners And Capitalists For Ever

                           https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/mar/x09.htm

The enemies of the working people, the landowners and capitalists say that the workers and peasants cannot live without them. "If it were not for us," they say, "there would be nobody to maintain order, to give out work, and to compel people to work. If it were not for us everything would collapse, and the state would fall to pieces. We have been driven away, but chaos will bring us back again." But this sort of talk by the landowners and capitalists will not confuse, intimidate, or deceive the workers and peasants. An army needs the strictest discipline; nevertheless the class-conscious workers succeeded in uniting the peasants, succeeded in taking the old tsarist officers into their service, succeeded in building a victorious army.