The Joseph A. Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan Library has published its wonderful collection of radical posters online. The pick of Detroit native, union champion and anarchist Joseph A. Labadie’s library are the sections on anarchism and labor. The archive begins in the 1860s and continues to the present day:

“The Last Strike” (1912), Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich : IWW, Cleveland (all images courtesy Labadie Collection, University of Michigan)

“Is Colorado in America?” (1906), Western Federation of Miners, created by Charles Moyer and William D. Haywood

“Grand picnic and re-union of all the radicals of the city of Chicago” (1918), Industrial Workers of the World
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