Title: socialist political cartoon: school of socialismCreator: St. Louis section, Socialist Labor PartyDescription: Cartoon from “Socialist Album—1896”. Many cartoons credit the Socialist Newspaper Union, St Louis, a creation of Albert Sanderson and Gustav Hoehn, publisher and editor of St Louis Labor. Date: 1896

Title: socialist political cartoon: school of socialism
Creator: St. Louis section, Socialist Labor Party
Description: Cartoon from “Socialist Album—1896”. Many cartoons credit the Socialist Newspaper Union, St Louis, a creation of Albert Sanderson and Gustav Hoehn, publisher and editor of St Louis Labor. 
Date: 1896

Left Wing Caucus of the Young Socialist League (ca. 1957)

  The Left Wing Caucus represented a left-wing tendency within the Young Socialist League.  Their slogan, “Unity to Left,” invited controversy among the less radical members of the YSL, who believed that they wished to unite with the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party.  Instead, the group urged the development of a coalition of those who are closest to their ideology already and are moving to the left. 

     They also criticize Michael Harrington’s depiction of their caucus as a group of Trotskyists while at the same time urging the avoidance of working with reformist groups and parties, such as the Socialist Party and the support of Communists for the Democratic Party.

Death of Lenin

RU 06, 1924, Soviet Union, Russia, Lenin funeral, POV from train going through the country. Train arrives in Moscow, Clara Zetkin at the station, funeral procession through city, Kalinin, Kamenev, Stalin, Voroshilov, Rykov and others, huge crowd, chapel of rest, crowd ligning in streets to go to chapel of rest (in Trade Unions House). Soldiers paying respect to Lenin, CU mourners and guard of honour : Lenin’s sister Anna w/ young nephew, Lenin’s younger sister Maria, Lunacharsky, other standing men, Frunze, Petrovsky, Radek, CU Kalinin standing near Lenin’s body, CU Stalin. Huge crowd in Moscow streets.

Lenin’s funeral in Moscow (January 1924). Making of the mortuary mask. In Trade Unions House, people even children queueing to pay respect, Nadezhda Krupskaya, other Bolshevik leaders, Stalin, Kalinin, Molotov, Lenin’s sisters Anna and Maria …. Rare shot : Lenin’s coffin is covered and closed. Carrying of the body to the first wooden Mausoleum : Stalin, Kalinin, Voroshilov, Molotov and others carry the coffin, procession, Evdokimov’s speech on Red Square, Red Army soldiers, CU Nadezhda Krupskaya, Kalinin, Rykov, crowds marching in snowy streets, freezing cold (minus 26 degrees). Lenin’s coffin on Red Square, demonstrators, people try to warm up around campfires and braziers. 

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Driftless: Stories from Iowa

The thriving Midwestern family farm is no longer, having been choked by industrialized agriculture and replanted with subdivisions. A shifting economy, combined with an old-fashioned lifestyle that doesn’t translate from generation to generation, is forever altering the landscape.


Danny Wilcox Frazier was born and raised in Iowa. He loves the place and worries over its lost way of life, even as he knows what it feels like to be a young man and want to leave.


Carrying one camera and one lens, Frazier walks Iowa’s gravel roads, gets his feet wet in the milking barn, pulls up a stool in the small-town bar. Through black-and-white photographs, he makes a record of his own emotions as he travels through the state. What results is a complex portrait of a well-loved American landscape at a time of enormous cultural change.

Actors Equity strike of 1919, re-created during the strike at the Lexington Avenue Opera House. Often called the “revolt of the actors,” the 1919 strike established the newly formed actors’ union as a force in the American theater.  Actors’ Equity produced shows to raise money for the strike fund, including the one pictured here, with actor Brandon Tynan declaiming a well-adapted version of Marc Antony’s address to the Roman citizens at the funeral of Julius Caesar: “Friends, Brothers, Sisters, Countrymen, lend me your ears.  I come not to bury Equity but to praise him.  The evil that men do lives after them.  The good is oft interred with their bones.  Not so with Equity…. “Behind us we have more than five million men and women.  The ship of hope—the American Federation of Labor. [The mob cheers.] “Now, dear public, our great public.  You have always stood for justice.  You have always been just tous and we have always tried to be just to you.  Will you stand up and show that you are with us, and join us in our cry of EQUITY! EQUITY!!, EQUITY!!!” The crowded house sprang to its feet as the actors onstage threw back their heads, stretched out their arms, and thrilled to their cry of faith, with the audience joining in. (New York Call, August, 1919) Image from the Actors Equity Collection, NYU Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

Actors Equity strike of 1919, re-created during the strike at the Lexington Avenue Opera House. Often called the “revolt of the actors,” the 1919 strike established the newly formed actors’ union as a force in the American theater.  Actors’ Equity produced shows to raise money for the strike fund, including the one pictured here, with actor Brandon Tynan declaiming a well-adapted version of Marc Antony’s address to the Roman citizens at the funeral of Julius Caesar:

“Friends, Brothers, Sisters, Countrymen, lend me your ears.  I come not to bury Equity but to praise him.  The evil that men do lives after them.  The good is oft interred with their bones.  Not so with Equity….

“Behind us we have more than five million men and women.  The ship of hope—the American Federation of Labor. [The mob cheers.]

“Now, dear public, our great public.  You have always stood for justice.  You have always been just tous and we have always tried to be just to you.  Will you stand up and show that you are with us, and join us in our cry of EQUITY! EQUITY!!, EQUITY!!!”

The crowded house sprang to its feet as the actors onstage threw back their heads, stretched out their arms, and thrilled to their cry of faith, with the audience joining in. (New York Call, August, 1919)

Image from the Actors Equity Collection, NYU Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

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Henry Giroux- Selling Out New York City's Public Schools: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner and the Politics of Corporate "Leadership"

  San Francisco ‘34 Waterfront Strike, between 1940 and 1948.Anton Refregier, 1905-1979. Screenprint.  Under the auspices of the Federal Art Project, Anton Refregier brought images of labor strife to the public through murals created for post offices in San Francisco and Plainfield, New Jersey. San Francisco ‘34 Waterfront Strike is a silkscreen version of the mural entitled The Waterfront—1934 in the Rincon Post Office in San Francisco, for which Refregier received a commission in 1940 and which he completed in 1948 .

 

San Francisco ‘34 Waterfront Strike, between 1940 and 1948.
Anton Refregier, 1905-1979. 
Screenprint. 

Under the auspices of the Federal Art Project, Anton Refregier brought images of labor strife to the public through murals created for post offices in San Francisco and Plainfield, New Jersey. San Francisco ‘34 Waterfront Strike is a silkscreen version of the mural entitled The Waterfront—1934 in the Rincon Post Office in San Francisco, for which Refregier received a commission in 1940 and which he completed in 1948 .