Eric Leif Davin

Eric Leif Davin was a draft resister during the Vietnam War. Drafted for the war, he refused to be drafted. This is his account of his life in the theater at Harvard, working in the Free School Movement, running for School Committee in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and surviving personally and politically in the swirling chaos of that era.

The Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 was a major struggle in the history of American labor. Over 25,000 Italian and Jewish workers shut down Paterson's 300 silk mills and dye houses for almost five months over the issue of workers' control of the rate of production. It was the biggest strike in Paterson's history. Workers overcame their differences in craft, nationality, and gender; and their democratic self-organization became a school in self-management. The workers invited the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to aid them. The IWW included a stress on the active role of workers in the strike and this revolutionary vision of workers' control reached its fullest expression in the Paterson Strike Pageant performed by the workers themselves in Madison Square Garden. This was a revolutionary innovation in theater and labor struggles which remains an inspiration to labor and the Left.

A Tale of the Old West. They were desperate outlaws in a desperate land, facing down demons from their own past.

At the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as "Wobs," joined the Revolution in the Baja Peninsula. What resulted was a mixed rebel army of native Mexicans, Indians, and American Wobs who captured several towns along the American-Mexican border, including Tijuana. They did so in order to jointly create a socialist co-operative commonwealth in the Baja. This is the story of that socialist revolution within the larger Mexican Revolution.

She promised to protect those under her care, even if it meant fighting the Devil himself.

The future of post-industrial America came to Pittsburgh in 1980. As the steel industry collapsed and disappeared in the Steel City, steelworkers, radicals, and activists of all types fought against the falling furnaces. This is the story of their fight against the destruction of industrial America by one who was there.

This book is an overview of the development of the American working class through three major eras in the 20th century. The first era was that of the Second Industrial Revolution and the rise of an immigrant industrial working class, from 1900-1930. The second era was that of the New Deal Political Order. This era began in the 1930s with the New Deal Social Contract, which legitimized labor unions as full partners in labor-management relations and government intervention in the economy. The New Deal Political Order lasted until the 1970s, when it was replaced by the third era, the Neoliberal Political Order. This era featured the decline labor's power and influence as the ascendant Neoliberal Political Order championed unregulated free markets, unrestricted global free trade, and pushback against the administrative state created by the New Deal. The book also offers a vision of a new future for the labor movement, and for America.

They wanted to leave Amerika behind. But Amerika wouldn't let them.

Growing up in a dysfunctional blue-collar family in Arizona during the Fifties and early Sixties, Eric Leif Davin struggled with the idea of what it meant to be a man. It was a long journey away from machismo and toward maturity. A violent coming of age at mid-century in the desert Southwest.

This book is a potpourri offering. As its title indicates, it is a meandering collection of writings on many topics, from Hispanic communities in the Southwest to KKK rallies in Pennsylvania to seizures of corporate buildings in Rust Belt Ohio with angry steelworkers. The writings explore everything from history and radical politics to science fiction, music, and other aspects popular culture.

A collection of profiles and interviews with radical artists and activists who have devoted their lives to creating a more just and humane society. Among those interviewed and profiled are Philip Foner, Meridel Le Sueur, Buckminster Fuller, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Staughton Lynd, Howard Zinn, Dick Gregory, Gil Scott-Heron, Nikki Giovanni, Crystal Lee Sutton, Germaine Greer, Marge Piercy, Dave Dellinger, Michael Harrington, Sidney Lens, Daniel Berrigan, and Emile de Antonio.

The transition from medieval feudalism to the modern capitalist world -- like that from ancient slavery to feudalism itself -- is considered to be one of the major historical transitions of humanity. The most common explanations for this passage, however, suffer from being more descriptions for this passage than actual explanations for it. This book offers a more acceptable explanation for this passage: The secularization of the Peace of God movement of the early eleventh century.