2027 Solidarity Forever Labor History Calendar
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.
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