Reprint of 1981 essay, originally published in GOLDENSEAL.
"The assassination of Matewan Masscre defendants Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers in August 1921 brought the West Virginia Mine Wars to a frenzied crescendo. Outraged coal miners marched South from the Kanawha valley by the thousands..."
Includes stencil images and histories of revolutionary women, including Harriet Tubman, Louise Michel, Vera Zasulich, Emma Goldman, Qui Jin, Nora Connolly, Lucia Sanchez Saornil, Eva Rickard, Angela Davis, Leila Khaled, Comandante Ramona, and Phoolan Devi.
Sections on Lost Utopias, the trial statement of Emile Henry, women in the English Revolution, history book reviews and movie reviews. Interview with the Bristol Radical History Group