1. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1952
   A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
2. The Anatomy of A Rebellion
   Against The Current vol. 84
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000
   The first time I traveled to Los Angeles with a comrade of mine in the labor movement, I had one of those sharp educational experiences that cannot be replicated in the classroom.
3. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
   Great Cities of North America Since 1600
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
4. The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1997
   The Bus Riders Union began as an outgrowth of the Labor/Community Strategy Center's "Equity in Transportation Project," a policy analysis group which to study the transportation problems of the urban poor. What they discovered was an increasingly polarized allocation of public resources based on race.
5. Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   A report from the 2011 Occupy movement in Los Angeles.
6. A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2001
   In Los Angeles, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right. The center is an explicitly anti-racist, anti-corporate, and anti-imperialist think-tank focusing on 'theory-driven practice'—the generation of mass campaigns of the working class and oppressed nationalities, in particular the black and Latino workers and communities. These campaigns are historically relevant on their own terms, but also have real relevance to any transition to an uncharted socialist future.

Experts on Los Angeles in the Sources Directory

1. J. Paul Getty Museum