2025 Labor History Calendar

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