Blair Mountain: Centenary of the West Virginian Miners’ Uprising

Coal miners standing at the entrance of a Blair Mountain mine. Facing attacks on their union, the multi-ethnic proletariat rose up against the mining companies backed by the U.S government. “I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But

230th Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution

Led by black Jacobins inspired by the Great French Revolution, slaves on the French colony of Saint Domingue (today Haiti) rose up against their white French royalist oppressors on 22 August 1791. “When they [Haitians] struck for freedom, they builded better than they knew. Their swords were not drawn, and they could not be drawn