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Current News

• AlterNet - "Project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism."
• The Black Commentator - "A weekly Internet magazine featuring commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting AfricanAmericans."
• Common Dreams - "Breaking news & views for the progressive community."
• Community Labor News - E-Zine and discussion forum for "everyone interested in issues affecting the local, regional, or international labor community."
• Corporate Watch - Online magazine, resource center, and World Trade Watch Radio.
• Flashpoints News Radio - "Daily Investigative Radio Magazine" from 94.1 KPFA, Berkeley and produced by Dennis Bernstein.
• Free Speech Internet Television - Not-for-profit web host to non-commercial websites and media files.
• Global Unions News - Updated daily, this site is "owned and managed by a number of international trade union organisations."
• Great Speckled Bird Strike Page - Database of current strikes, boycotts, demonstrations.
• IndyMedia - "Collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. "
• Indypendent - From the New York City Independent Media Center.
• Information Clearing House - "An alternative independent non-commercial source for news, information and insight." Daily headlines email digest is also available.
• infoshop.org - "Anarchist, activist, and alternative news."
• Daily Labor News Digest - digest of news, commentary and analysis about working class issues from around the world.
• Labor Beat - "Webcasts" of selected Labor Beat television and radio programs available.
• Labor Research Association - News, polls, trends, and more from non-profit research and advocacy organization.
• Labor Watch - Short news and notes on labor is updated biweekly. Produced by the Harvard Trade Union Program and the Midwest Center for Labor Research.
• LaborNet - Includes current news articles, action alerts, list of strikes and campaigns, and a link to the Union Jobs Clearinghouse.
• LabourNet - Canada labor news updated weekly.
• LabourStart - Updated several times per day, a great source of labor news from around the world.
• New York Transfer News Collective - From Blythe Systems. "Since 1985... all the news that doesn't fit."
• Project Censored - Each year publishes the top 25 censored news stories and a weekly webcast radio program.
• Venezuelanalysis.com - "is an editorially independent website produced by individuals who are dedicated to disseminating news and analysis about the current political situation in Venezuela."
• WebActive - Includes Radio Nation, Pacifica Network News, Democracy Now, and CounterSpin.
• Workers Independent News Service - (New!) "gather[s] news from labor unions and activists from across the country...then packages the material for distribution to radio stations and for print publication." Site includes audio streaming headlines.
• World Socialist Web Site - From the International Committee of the Fourth International.
• Yahoo Labor & Union News - Updated daily, it provides links to articles, audio, video, and usenet.

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Periodicals

• Against the Current - Bimonthly journal from Solidarity, "a revolutionary, socialist, democratic, feminist organization." Web site provides tables of contents and sample full text articles from current and previous issues.
• Amandla! - From South Africa, a monthly magazine "written by, and for activists in political, labour and popular organisations, as well as progressive intellectuals at the universities, in NGOs, parliament, community based organisations, churches, journalists, lawyers, public officials in state institutions, etc."
• America@Work - AFL-CIO site. Search engine provides access to archived articles.
• Campaign for Labor Rights - "The Grassroots Mobilizing Department of the U.S. Anti-Sweatshop Movement."
• Canadian Dimension - Current issue table of contents and selected full text articles from current and previous issues. It provides an "alternative to the corporate agenda and the dictates of the global market ... [and] provides a forum for debate."
• Climate and Capitalism - online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative.
• Colorlines - Quarterly magazine published by Applied Research Center & the Center for Third World Organizing, Current issue table of contents and selected articles from current and previous issues.
• Convoy Dispatch - Newspaper of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
• Covert Action Quarterly - Tables of contents and selected full text articles from current and previous issues.
• Direct Action - a monthly publication which "aims to help build the movement for socialism," from the Revolutionary Socialist Party in Australia.
• the Dispatcher - Monthly publication of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union. Full text articles back to January 1999.
• Dissent - Articles going back to Winter 1999 issue. Includes a search engine.
• Dollars & Sense
• Economic Notes
• EXTRA! - From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Inc.
• Foreign Affairs -
• Frontlines - "Newspaper of the left."
• Global Economic Justice Report - "A periodical on global issues of economic justice" from Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives.
• Granma Internacional - International edition of the Cuban daily newspaper. Available in Spanish, English, French, German, and Portuguese.
• Graphic Communicator -
• Green Left Weekly - Australia'a "independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality."
• Hazards - Independent health and safety magazine out of the U.K. A "Translate this site" feature is available.
• In These Times - "magazine of news, opinion and culture, committed to extending political and economic democracy and to opposing the tyranny of the marketplace over human values."
• Industrial Worker - "Official monthly publication of the Industrial Workers of the World."
• International Labor & Working Class History
• International Labor Review - "combines a global view with the results of analysis by economists, lawyers, sociologists, policy-makers and other experts on the many factors determining the level, quality and distribution of employment."
• International Progressive Publications Network - Links to progressive publications. Searchable by subject, continent, and country.
• International Socialist Review - Journal of the International Socialist Organization.
• International Union Rights
• International Viewpoint - Monthly publication of the Fourth International.
• the Internationalist - Bimonthly publication of the Internationalist Group, section of the League for the Fourth International.
• JOSHRC Newsletter - Publication from the Japan Occupational Safety & Health Resource Center.
• Labor Notes - The "voice of union activists who want to "put the movement back in the labor movement."
• Labor Party Press - Official publication of the Labor Party, published 6 x /year. Includes archives back to Nov. 1996.
• Labor Standard - "guided by the principles of working-class democracy and revolutionary socialism represented historically by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky."
• Label Letter - From the Union Label & Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO.
• Labour, Capital, & Society - Bilingual (French/English) journal on labor issues from the Centre for Developing-Area Studies of McGill University. Published twice a year.
• Left Business Observer
• Left Hook - "a political journal hoping to serve as a gathering point for American youth along the whole radical spectrum."
• Links - A "a journal for the post Cold War left...a forum for open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from different political traditions."
• the Militant - Weekly newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party (USA).
• Monthly Labor Review
• Monthly Review - Independent socialist magazine.
• Multinational Monitor
• NACLA Report on the Americas
• the Nation
• Network News - Quarterly publication of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
• New Labor Forum - Semiannual journal published from Queens College Labor Resource Center in New York.
• New Politics - Semiannual journal providing an "independent socialist forum for dialogue and debate on the left."
• News - Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Organized Labor - Official publication of the Building & Construction Trades Council of San Francisco.
• the Organizer- "one of the main voices promoting the activities and campaigns both of the OWC and the ILC."
• the People - Monthly newspaper of the Socialist Labor Party (USA).
• Perspective - Publication of the California Federation of Teachers.
• the Progressive
• Radical America - digitized and made available in PDF format by the Center for Digital Initiatives at Brown University (not a complete run).
• Radical History Review
• Revolutionary History - "a magazine dealing with the history of the revolutionary socialist movement, from a mainly Trotskyist viewpoint." From the U.K.
• Socialism and Democracy - Semi-annual publication of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy.
• Socialist Action - Monthly newspaper of Socialist Action (USA).
• Socialist Appeal - Official organ of the Workers International League.
• Socialist Register - Full archives from volume one in 1964 through all but the last six years.
• Socialist Viewpoint - Monthly magazine of the newly formed Socialist Workers Organization (USA).
• Socialist Voice - Based in Canada, "a forum for discussion of the principles of Marxism as applied to workers' struggles today."
• Socialist Worker - Biweekly newspaper of the International Socialist Organization.
• Technology and Culture - Table of Contents available from 1998 to current. Full text of articles requires a subscription.
• UE News - Frequently updated news from the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America. Site includes a search engine.
• Union Democracy Review - Bimonthly publication from the Association for Union Democracy. Selected articles are available in full text.
• What Next? - A "discussion journal aimed at those who are interested in the development of Marxism as a guide to action."
• Workers World - Weekly newspaper of Workers World.
• Working Together - From the Resource Center of the Americas, a non profit that promotes justice, democracy, and human rights in the Americas. Search for articles by country or subject.
• WorkingUSA - "forum for creative dialogue between academics and union leaders..." Table of Contents only, available back to 1997.
• Workplace: the Journal for Academic Labor
• Z Magazine - Provides searchable access to the archives of this monthly publication and an interactive feature.

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Labor & Unions

• Bureau of Labor Statistics - From the United States Department of Labor.
• California Labor History Map - "enables users to explore, by location, date, or text search, over 1200 key events in the state's labor history."
• Chartbook of International Labor Comparisons: United State, Europe, & Asia - From the U.S. Department of Labor, charts and statistics compare a large number of indicators from the1990s to the most current year data is available.
• Cyber Picket Line - "home of the World Trade Union Directory" and links to an extensive number of international trade union resources.
• KC Labor - "an Internet port-of-entry for working people" features Daily Labor News Digest, solidarity campaigns, resources, and more.
• Labor Contracts Database - Contracts, formated in PDFs, cataloged and listed by State, Union Name, and Represented Occupation
• Labor Unions - A directory of U.S. unions, support organizations, and labor union portals.
• Librarians Index to the Internet: Labor - (New!) "The mission of Librarians' Internet Index is to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected websites, serving California, the nation, and the world."
• NATCA Labor Links - Links to a variety of union and labor related links.
• Trade Union Publications: The Official Journals, Convention Proceedings and Constitutions of International Unions and Federations, 1850-1941 -Full text of this out of print three volume index by Lloyd G. Reynolds and Charles C. Killingsworth. Made available by the Catherwood Library and ILR School at Cornell.
• Union Reports and Collective Bargaining Agreements - searchable database from the Online Public Disclosure Room of the U.S. Department of Labor.
• Union Songs - "More than 610 songs and poems, over 250 authors" searchable by word or phrase.
• Young Workers United - "Young Workers United is a multi-racial and bilingual membership organization dedicated to improving the quality of jobs for young and immigrant workers and raising standards in the low-wage service sector..."
  

Labor & Employment Law

• Employees Rights - From the Nolo Press online Law Centers, click on the Topic "Employment Law."
• Federal Labor Laws - Outline and explanation of federal labor laws from the University of Missouri Labor Education Program.
• FindLaw - Includes cases & codes with a full text searchable database. Excellent place to start your research.
• Guide to Labor & Employment Laws for Migrant Workers in North America - May be downloaded in English, French, and Spanish.
• LALabor.com - Cases, laws, and other materials related to "California law of the workplace." (Note: links don't seem to work using Netscape.)
• Legal Information Institute: Law About Labor - From the Cornell Law School, it provides links to federal and state statutes, judicial decisions, and related sites.
• Ross Runkel Employment Law Page - From the publisher of the Employment Law Memo and the NLRB Memo, the site includes free NLRB and EEOC information and links.
• Thomas - Full text of bills from the current Congress back through the 101st, searchable by bill number and key word or phrase.
• WashLaw: StateLaw - Searchable state government and legislative information from Washburn University School of Law Library.
• Workplace Rights - American Civil Liberties Union site includes recent news and current hot issues.
• World Legal Information Institute - Portal to labor and industrial relations websites world wide. A collaborative project for "free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law."

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Labor and Radical Libraries & Archives

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Electronic Archives

• American Memory Collections - Digitized collections from the Library of Congress. See especially "African Americans - Pamphlets ~ 1824-1865" and "Woman Suffrage" under the Political Science and Law topic.
• Anarchy Archives - An ongoing digital project from students at the Claremont Colleges. Includes classic anarchist pamphlets and journals.
• Castro Speech Database - English translation of speeches, interviews, and press conferences from 1959-1996. Use the search engine or browse by year. Site maintained by the Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas.
• eBooks: Labor, Labor History - Index with links to digital books available on the web. Most are free, some require paid subscription.
• Edward Said Archives - Articles and interviews by and about Edward Said. Also includes links to other relevant sites.
• Emma Goldman Papers Project - Primary sources, a Curriculum for Middle and High School Students, an Online Exhibition, and many other materials are part of this site.
• Ernest Mandel Internet Archive - "Our goal is to publish in the first place texts by Mandel himself, next to commentaries, debates etc. on his work, pictures."
• Flint Sit-Down Strike - Multi-media oral history of the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-37 from the Historical Voices project.
• Free Speech Movement Digital Archives - Approximately 35,000 pages of documents, oral histories, video and sound recordings, and online finding aids to protest collections. From the collection of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Freedom of Information Act, Electronic Reading Room - Frequently requested FBI case files are available in PDF format. Among the 100+ subjects included are: Cesar Chavez, Martin Dies, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X (Little), Paul & Eslanda Robeson, the Rosenbergs, Sacco-Vanzetti, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Carlo Tresca, Leon Trotsky, the Weatherman Underground, and Kent State.
• GI Movement Archives - Pamphlets, leaflets, cartoons, photographs, GI newspaper covers, and audio files, assembled by the Sir, No Sir! documentary team.
• Kent State - Primary source materials, photographs, court papers, etc. on the shootings of students on May 4, 1970.
• Lubitz TrotskyanaNet - Trotsky, Trotskyism and Trotskyists, focusing particularly on biographical and bibliographical information and related issues. Of particular note is their Authority File of pseudonyms, acronyms, aliases, and pen names.
• Margaret Sanger Documents - The Sanger Project has made available electronic editions of published articles and speeches. Links to other scholarly sites that have mounted documents written by Margaret Sanger are also provided. The project is sponsored by the Department of History at New York University.
• Marxists Internet Archive - A massive digital archive of "Marxism and all things related to it." Primarily in English, this international volunteer project also has a Multi-Lingual Writers' Archive with documents in languages from Albanian to Vietnamese. The Marxist Writers' Archive includes writings by Cannon, Engels, Guevara, Kollontai, Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Zetkin, and countless others. The Marxist History Archive includes original documents, the Subject Archive is a subject directory to the materials, and the Reference Writers' Archive includes"writers relevant to understanding the concepts of Marxism." There is also an Encyclopedia of Marxism, a Student Section which provides an introduction to Marxism, and a sister site of Leftist Parties of the World.
• Pacifica Radio Archives - Audio of demonstrations; seminars; interviews with activists, authors, artists, and musicians from the 1949s to the present era available for download. Folio program guides have also been digitized and can be viewed and can be downloaded in low resolution PDF.
• National Security Archives - An independent non-governmental research institute and library that "collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)."
• Project Gutenberg - Etexts of books in the Public Domain (generally pre-1923). The project chooses books "we hope extremely large portions of the audience will want and use frequently." Works by Thomas Carlyle, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and Upton Sinclair, among many others, are available.
• Radicalism Collection - Electronic versions of documents from the collections of the Michigan State University Libraries. Topics include the Birth Control Movement, Black Panthers, Hollywood Ten, Industrial Workers of the World, Evacuation and Relocation of Japanese Americans, Native American movements, the Rosenberg and Sacco-Vanzetti Cases, Scottsboro Boys, and many more.
• Raising Rebels: An Exhibition of Radical Children's Literature - Primarily digitized images of book covers, this "exhibition features biographies of radical activists, as well as the Young World Books series issued by International Publishers.... Also included are children’s books with feminist, labor, multicultural, pacifist, and racial themes."
• Samuel Gompers Papers - Documents, Photo Gallery, Index to the 7-volume "Samuel Gompers Papers, and a Bibliography are part of this site. Sponsored by the University of Maryland-College Park, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the George Meany Memorial Archives.
• Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project - University of Washington "multimedia project explores the history of movements for racial and economic justice in Seattle and western Washington state. The civil rights movement in Seattle... relied not just on not just African American activists but also Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and some elements of the region's labor movement." This web archive "features more than 80 oral history interviews with former activists as well as hundreds of photographs, documents, and research reports."
• Sixties Project: Primary Document Archive - Documents from the Black Panther Party, Free Speech Movement, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and many others from the sixties.
• Socialist History Project - "Documents, manifestos, reminiscences and essays, by and about the revolutionary socialist movement in Canada and Québec in the 20th Century." Not affiliated with any political tendency.
• Women Working: 1870-1930 -"Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections that explore women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression."

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Occupational Health

• AFL-CIO Safety & Health on the Job - Information and links on legislation, workers' compensation, ergonomics, etc. Also includes Spanish language safety and health resources.
• BLS Safety & Health Statistics - This Bureau of Labor Statistics site contains documents and reports for viewing and downloading in PDF format.
• Environmental Research Foundation - Includes Rachel's Environmental and Health Weekly, useful for articles and research. 
• Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in the United States, 1980-1995 - Statistics on over 93,000 deaths by demographic and injury characteristics, from the National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities surveillance system.
• IARC Monographs - Lists occupational carcinogens.
• Medscape - Commercial web site searches MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, and TOXLINE. Free, but you must register.
• National Institute for Occupational Health & Safety - Links to services, databases, and full text documents.
• New York Committe for Occupational Safety and Health - "100 pages of news and information about on-the-job safety and health, plus more than 1,500 links." Includes lastest World Trade Center safety and health information.
• NIOSH Pocket Guide to Hazardous Chemicals - Includes permissible exposure limits, personal protection, and sanitation recommendations.
• Occupational & Environmental Medicine Resource List - Comprehensive list of governmental and nongovernmental Web sites, from Duke University Medical Center.
• Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA) - Site accesses speeches, regulations, statistics, etc.
• Proposition 65 - List of chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and reproductive hazards.
• PubMed - National Library of Medicine's search service to citations in MEDLINE and other databases.
• Worksafe! - "A California Coalition for Worker Occupational Safety & Heath Protection.
• Workers Health and Safety Center - Canadian site designed to "empower workers."

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Visual Arts & Exhibits

• Art for a Change! - http://burn.ucsd.edu/
  Image library from the BURN! Project includes posters from the Spanish Civil War and Paris 1968, among several others.
• Art of Marxism - http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/index.htm
  Exhibits from the Marxists Internet Archive. Also includes many links to related web sites.
• Center for the Study of Political Graphics - http://www.politicalgraphics.org/
  An "educational archive that collects, preserves, documents, and exhibits domestic and international posters...for peace and social justice."
• Culture and History of America at Work - http://www.aflcio.org/gallery_hist/
  Film, music, photo essays, and more from the AFL-CIO.
• Docs Populi - http://www.docspopuli.org/
  Includes an archive of Cuban and Chinese poster art. From graphic artist and librarian, Lincoln Cushing.
• Graphic Witness - http://graphicwitness.org/ineye/index2.htm
  Visual arts and social commentary from 1900-present.
• Inkworks Press - http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/IW/IW.html
  "Searchable database of poster art from the archives of Inworks Press."
• International Institute of Social History - http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/index.html
  Virtual exhibitions from the archival collections of the IISH located in Amsterdam.
• Kheel Center Labor Photos - http://www.laborphotos.cornell.edu/
  A "digital collection of more than 1,000 photographs documenting the ninety-five year history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union."
• Labor Art Exhibits - http://www.iir.berkeley.edu/exhibit/
  From the institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley.
• Labor Arts - http://www.laborarts.org/
  Exhibits and permanent collections include photographs, paintings, banners, and buttons.
• Mai 1968 - http://burn.ucsd.edu/paristab.htm
  Posters from the ATELIER POPULAIRE (Popular Workshop), Paris, May 1968.
• the Masses - http://digital.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/themasses/
  Online exhibit of art work from The Masses magazine, mounted by the libraries of Michigan State University.
• OSPAAAL Poster Archive - http://www.docspopuli.org/CubaWebCat
  A prototype digital catalog of all known OSPAAAL (Organization in Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa, and Latin America) posters.
• Raising Rebels - http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/r/RadicalChildLit/index2.htm
  "An exhibition of radical childrens' literature" from the Syracuse University Library.
  
• Red Scare (1918-1921) - http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/
  Database of almost 300 images. Includes chronological and subject listings.
• Sam Reiss: Eyewitness to Labor History - http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/tam/reiss/opener.html
  Online photo exhibit from the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
• The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871 - http://www.library.nwu.edu/spec/siege/
  Over 1200 digitized photographs, portraits, caricatures, and other items from the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections at Northwestern University Library.
• Sixties Project Special Exhibitions - http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits.html
  Digital exhibit of Sixties Buttons and political posters from the United States, Cuba, and Vietnam.
• Spanish Civil War Posters - http://www.library.brandeis.edu/SpecialCollections/SpanishCivilWar/posters.html
  "A checklist, with links to images of selected posters."
• Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection - http://content.lib.washington.edu/protestsweb/index.html
  "This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s."
• WTO Seattle Collection - http://content.lib.washington.edu/WTOweb/
  From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections, a searchable collection of photographs, posters, and documents illustrating the protests at the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.

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