2027 marks the 100th anniversary of the judicial murders of fellow workers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants framed on murder charges despite no evidence tying them to the crime. Today we see a new round of persecutions of immigrant workers, more mass deportations, a return of mass conspiracy cases meant to criminalize dissent and intimidate those who might resist repression.
More than 50 million workers supported the campaign to free Sacco and Vanzetti; today we see community solidarity, workplace resistance and not enough strikes to force the bosses to respect our rights.
This year’s labor history calendar celebrates 120 years of resistance, from the Japanese copper miners who in 1907 decided they could no longer tolerate bribing their foremen and working in a toxic waste dump to the 1985 Bolivian general strike against austerity. We remember those whose solidarity won victory, from the farmworkers who refused to scab on the 1970 lettuce strike, forcing open the gates that had locked them in, to the women who responded to injunctions and gun thugs by putting their bodies on the line during the Brookside miners’ strike.
We remember nursing home workers who fought for two and a half years to get the wage hikes and benefits they had been promised, and British women who joined the fight against fascism by filling in for agricultural and timber workers – and fought for fair compensation when they faced lower pay. We remember oil refinery workers who demanded shorter hours and a share of the massive profits made off their toil in the aftermath of World War II. We honor the sit-down strikers who forced PanAm to agree to shorter hours and better pay, sparking unionization throughout the airline industry, and the West Virginia teachers who struck in 2018 and again in 2019 despite anti-strike laws.
Copies are $14.95 postpaid ($16.95 outside North America). A bundle of five copies to US addresses is $44.95. The calendar is 11 by 17 inches (open) with a color cover and black and white insides. It is union-printed. Copies can be ordered at https://joehill100.com/shop/ or by sending a check payable to Hungarian Literature Fund, PO Box 42531, Philadelphia PA 19101.
Our 2026 Solidarity Forever Labor History Calendar features 13 photographs commemorating a century of labor struggles, from the Winnipeg general strike to the strike of 150 million Indian public service workers. We remember the 1971 strike of Bell system telephone workers against a wage system that discriminated against women and the ongoing campaign for a living wage for fast food workers. We honor the long struggle by Florida tomato pickers whose wildcat strikes and campaigns against fast food chains forced buyers to pay a penny a pound more – doubling farm workers’ pay – and the 1912 free speech fight in San Diego demanding the right to organize itinerant workers. We invite you remember these and other struggles, and to draw inspiration from our past struggles as we battle for workers’ rights today.
Copies are $14.95 postpaid ($16.95 outside North America). A bundle of five copies is $44.95. The calendar is 11 by 17 inches (open) with a color cover and black and white insides. It is union-printed. Copies can be ordered at https://joehill100.com/shop/ or by sending a check payable to Hungarian Literature Fund, PO Box 42531, Philadelphia PA 19101.
Our 2025 calendar is now on the press, and can be ordered at https://joehill100.com Single copies are $13.95 in the United States, discounts are available for bulk orders.
This year’s calendar features 12 photos from labor struggles spanning the 20th century, from interracial organizing in Hawaii who won a 79-day strike against the plantation owners that dominated the local economy to factory occupations that swept France in 1936, winning shorter hours, higher pay, and the reinstatement of blacklisted unionists.
We remember the 1974 miners strike that put Britain on a three day workweek and toppled the government, and a Chicago teachers union leader who was back on the picket line just weeks after serving a month in jail for defying an anti-strike injunction. We remember the timber workers who organized an interracial union in the South in 1912 and a 1972 strike of workers in New Orleans’ water system. And we look back to the Pekin, Illinois, general strike, where workers in this 1,500-person town shut it down in solidarity with distillery workers attacked by the police and quickly won their demands.
The Solidarity Forever Labor History Calendar has been published by the Hungarian Literature Fund since 1985 to inspire greater labor solidarity and preserve the memory of workers’ struggles around the world. We welcome suggestions of important dates in labor history around the world, and especially information about photos that should be considered for inclusion.
“I want to express my gratitude for making the Labor History Calendar available. For years I have been purchasing it and find that it contains enormous information about labor history, both in the United States and internationally. As a former steelworker turned labor historian it is of immense value to me in teaching my students labor history by reminding me of the labor events that have taken place in the past.” — M.B., Houston
We’re down to our last few dozen copies of the 2024 Solidarity Forever Labor History calendar, so if you haven’t ordered yet we’d recommend putting in your order before we run out… $13.95 in the US, post-paid (select free shipping at checkout) at https://joehill100.com/product/2024-solidarity-forever-labor-history-calendar/
Our 2024 calendar is now on the press, and can be ordered at https://joehill100.com Increased printing and postal costs have forced us to increase the price to $13.95 ($15.95 outside North America)
This year’s calendar commemorates struggles including the Detroit auto workers whose sit-down strikes in the 1970s fought speed-ups and racist supervisors to the 1910 uprising of New York garment workers; the Parisian cafe workers who stopped work to stop managers from stealing their tips to Alabama sanitation workers’ long struggle demanding union recognition and decent working conditions; from Tokyo workers who beseiged the stock exchange to demand fair wages to maritime workers fighting Taft-Hartley injunctions to London dockworkers whose direct action freed shop stewards jailed for enforcing union conditions.
The Solidarity Forever Labor History Calendar has been published by the Hungarian Literature Fund since 1985 to inspire greater labor solidarity and preserve the memory of workers’ struggles around the world. We welcome suggestions of important dates in labor history around the world, and especially information about photos that should be considered for inclusion.
“I want to express my gratitude for making the Labor History Calendar available. For years I have been purchasing it and find that it contains enormous information about labor history, both in the United States and internationally. As a former steelworker turned labor historian it is of immense value to me in teaching my students labor history by reminding me of the labor events that have taken place in the past.” — M.B., Houston
the 2023 Solidarity Forever calendar is now available
This year’s calendar remembers strikes by port truckers who were among the first to face the gig economy, cotton pickers, teachers and textile workers who defied injunctions to demand better conditions and the right to organize and strike. We honor those who fought for safe working conditions, who struck in solidarity with coal miners, who refused austerity and misery and silence.
The calendar is 11 by 17 inches (open) with a color cover and black and white insides. It is union-printed.
Copies are $12.95, post-paid, in the U.S. and Canada ($14.95 elsewhere); a bundle of 5 to the same address is $38.95. Please inquire for bulk rates. Copies can be ordered at https://joehill100.com/shop/
We should be on the press soon and shipping calendars by the end of September. Email iwwhlf@gmail.com to arrange bulk orders (which can be shipped direct from the printer). We will post a link for ordering single copies and bundles of 5 to this site as soon as the price is finalized. (Increased printing and postage costs mean we will have to raise the price slightly.)
If our JoeHill100com site goes dead (as seems increasingly likely to happen on Sept. 16; we have spent countless hours in the last nine months trying to resolve problems with our webhost and domain registrar, but thus far without any success) it will remain possible to order through this site.
Our 2022 labor history calendar will begin shipping in mid-October.
A small number of unsold calendars are being returned to us. Contact us if you still need a labor history calendar, and we will ship while supplies last.
The 2021 Solidarity Forever Labor History Calendar is out of print as of January 14, 2021. You can contact us if you have an urgent need, but we are now down to a few file copies and do not believe it makes sense to go back to press.
The calendar is 11 by 17 inches (open, folds to 8 1/2 by 11), with a color cover and black and white insides. It is union-printed. Copies are $12.95 each, post-paid, in the U.S. and Canada ($14.95 in the rest of the world); a bundle of 5 to the same address is $38.95. Please inquire for bulk rates.
Copies can be ordered at http://joehill100.com (where we also list a variety of Joe Hill- and other Wobbly-related books, t-shirts, buttons, CDs, and other items), or by sending a check to IWW Hungarian Literature Fund, PO Box 42531, Philadelphia PA 19101.
