William Z. Foster
(1881–1961)
Writings:
1909: Special Spokane Despatches from The Workingman’s Paper, November 20, 1909
1909: Special Spokane Despatches (cont.) from The Workingman’s Paper, November 27, 1909
1909: The Sweat-Box from The Workingman’s Paper, December 11, 1909
1909: Daily Despatches from Our Own Reporter from The Workingman’s Paper, December 18, 1909
1909: Foster's Last Despatch from The Workingman’s Paper, December 25, 1909
1909: Shocking Experiences from The Workingman’s Paper, December 25, 1909
1909: Three Spokane Mushrooms from The Workingman’s Paper, December 25, 1909
1910: Foster's Letter from Rockpile from The Workingman’s Paper, January 8, 1910
1910: From Foster in Jail from The Workingman’s Paper, January 22, 1910
1910: 47 Days in Spokane City Jail
1910: Spokane Fight for Free Speech Settled
1910: Treaty of Peace is Concluded from The Workingman’s Paper, March 19, 1910
1910: Our Foreign Correspondent from The Industrial Worker, September 3, 1910
1910: Insurgency or the Economic Power of the Middle Class
1910: Our Foreign Correspondent, II from The Industrial Worker, September 17, 1910
1910: French Rebels Active, Will Strike Soon from The Industrial Worker, September 24, 1910
1910: News of Our Fellows in France from The Industrial Worker, October 8, 1910
1910: Our Special Correspondent from The Industrial Worker, October 19, 1910
1910: Convention of the C.G.T.
1910: The Big Railroad Strike in France from The Industrial Worker, November 2, 1910
1910: Foster Gives the Latest News of the C.G.T. from Industrial Worker, November 9, 1910
1910: [French Railroad] Strike from Solidarity, November 12, 1910
1910: France, An Undeveloped Country from Solidarity, November 19, 1910
1910: Special News from France from Industrial Worker, November 24, 1910
1910: Note: William Haywood from La Vie ouvriere, December 5, 1910
1910: Special News from France (cont.)
1910: Special News from France (cont.) from Industrial Worker, December 22, 1910
1910: Special News from France (cont.) from Industrial Worker, December 29, 1910
1910: Stirring Events in France from Solidarity, December 31, 1910
1911: Sabotage from Solidarity, January 7, 1911
1911: Special News From France (cont.) from The Industrial Worker, January 12, 1911
1911: La lutte pour la liberte de parole a Spokane from La Vie ouvriere, January 20, 1911
1911: Special News from France (cont.) from The Industrial Worker, February 2, 1911
1911: La lutte pour la liberte de parole a Spokane, II from La Vie ouvriere, February 5, 1911
1911: The Socialist and Syndicalist Movements in France. Foster Replies to Robert Rives La Monte
1911: News From Germany from The Industrial Worker, May 4, 1911
1911: May Day in Germany from Solidarity, June 3, 1911
1911: Special From Germany from The Industrial Worker, July 13, 1911
1911: Le VIIIe Congres des Syndicats allemands from La Vie ouvriere, August 20-September 5, 1911
1911: German Unions in Congress from The Industrial Worker, September 7, 1911
1911: Labor Day in New York from Solidarity September 9, 1911
1911: Syndicalism in Germany from The Industrial Worker, September 14, 1911
1911: Budapest Civic Federation from The Industrial Worker, September 21, 1911
1911: The Socialist Labor Movement in Germany, part I from Solidarity, September 30, 1911
1911: Peonage in Germany from The Industrial Worker, October 5, 1911
1911: The Socialist Labor Movement in Germany, part II from Solidarity, October 7, 1911
1911: The Socialist Labor Movement in Germany, part III from Solidarity, October 14, 1911
1911: As to My Candidacy from Industrial Worker, November 2, 1911
1912: L’Affaire MacNamara from La Vie ouvriere, February 5, 1912
1912: Foster Takes Exception from The Agitator, February 13, 1912
1912: Revolutionary Tactics, Part I from The Agitator, April 15, 1912
1912: Revolutionary Tactics, Part II from The Agitator, May 1, 1912
1912: Revolutionary Tactics, Part III from The Agitator, May 15, 1912
1912: Revolutionary Tactics, Part IV from The Agitator, June 1, 1912
1912: Revolutionary Tactics, Part V from The Agitator, June 15, 1912
1912: Revolutionary Tactics, Part VI from The Agitator, July 1, 1912
1912: Syndicalism in France, Part I from The Agitator, July 15, 1912
1912: Syndicalism in France, Part II from The Agitator, August 1, 1912
1912: Syndicalism in France, Part III from The Agitator, August 15, 1912
1912: Syndicalism (with Earl C. Ford)
1912: The I.W.W. Convention from The Agitator, October 15, 1912
1912: The Molders’ Convention
1913: The A.F. of L. Convention from The Syndicalist, January 1, 1913
1913: The Syndicalist International from The Syndicalist, February 1, 1913
1913: Lettre de Etats-Unis [La deuxieme affaire MacNamara/Une grande greve de la confection a New-York/Un journal socialiste suspend sa publication] from La Vie ouvriere, February 20, 1913
1913: The Revolt of Labor from The Syndicalist, March 1, 1913
1913: The Revolt of Labor from The Syndicalist, March 15, 1913
1913: Lettre de Etats-Unis [La greve de la Confection de New-York/Les attentats a la dynamite. Apres le proces/Dans le trust de l’Acier] from La Vie ouvriere, March 20, 1913
1913: The Revolt of Labor from The Syndicalist, April 1, 1913
1913: Lettre de Etats-Unis [L’affaire Haywood/La greve de la Confection de New-York/Une invention policiere: le dictographe/Contre la guerre] from La Vie ouvriere, April 5, 1913
1913: The Revolt of Labor from The Syndicalist, April 15, 1913
1913: Lettre de Etats-Unis [La duperie de l’arbitrage] from La Vie ouvriere, April 20, 1913
1913: The Revolt of Labor from The Syndicalist, May 1, 1913
1913: The Revolt of Labor from The Syndicalist, May 15, 1913
1913: Lettre de Etats-Unis [Une renaissance de l’A.F. of L.–les causes/Contre le sabotage patronal/Un exemple de solidarite ouvriere/Chez les cheminots/La greve de Paterson] from La Vie ouvriere, May 20, 1913
1913: "Mutual Interest" Policy Tried from The Syndicalist, June 1, 1913
1913: Theory and Practice from The Syndicalist, July 1, 1913
1913: Lettre de Etats-Unis [Echec d’un grand projet des Compagnies de Chemins de fer] from La Vie ouvriere, July 20, 1913
1913: Lettre de Etats-Unis [Une association capitaliste de corruption parlementaire] from La Vie ouvriere, August 5, 1913
1913: Lettre de Etats-Unis [Le Congres des I. W. W.] from La Vie ouvriere, October 20, 1913
1913: Lettre de Etats-Unis [Greves et poursuites] from La Vie ouvriere, November 20, 1913
1914: Lettre de Etats-Unis [Le Congres de l’ “American Federation of Labor”] from La Vie ouvriere, January 5, 1914
1914: Lettre de Etats-Unis [La crise industrielle – La catastrophe de Calumet] from La Vie ouvriere, January 20, 1914
1919: Testimony in the Hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Education and Labor in their “Investigation of Strike in Steel Industries,” September 1919
1920: General Report on Steel Strike Relief Fund
1920: The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons
1921: The Railroaders’ Next Step, Labor Herald Library No. 1
1921: Debs Tried Out One Big Union of Railroads, Plan Weakened Craft Bodies Says Foster
1921: The Labor Movement in France
1921: The Reaction in Italy
1921: The Russian Revolution, Labor Herald Library No. 2
1921: The Unification of Labor
1922: The Principles and Program of the Trade Union Educational League
1922: Amalgamation or Annihilation
1922: The American Federation of Labor Convention
1922: Radical Tactics
1922: The Railway Employees’ Department Convention
1922: The Crisis on the Railroads
1922: The Young Worker and the Unions. An Interview with Wm. Z. Foster
1922: They Move an Inch. The Story of Four Railroad Conventions
1922: Foster’s Own Story. Kidnapping and Deportation Act of Revenge for Striking Rockefeller Steel Plant 100%
1922: Railroad Workers, Amalgamate!
1922: The Railroaders’ Next Step – Amalgamation, Labor Herald Library No. 1, Second Edition
1922: Lessons of the Shopmen’s Strike
1922: Gompersism in Full Flower
1922: The Revolutionary Crisis of 1918–1921 in Germany, England, Italy and France, Labor Herald Library No. 3
1922: Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement, Labor Herald Library No. 4
1922: The Chicago Federation of Labor
1922: How I Became a Rebel, from The Labor Herald, July 1922
1922: Report on the Labor Union Situation in the United States and Canada, Dec. 16, 1922
1923: Five Vital Conferences
1923: The National Railroad Amalgamation Conference in the U.S.A.
1923: The World Crisis and the United Front
1923: Amalgamation Movement in America
1923: Foster Shows T.U.E.L. Makes Big Progress from The Worker, February 10, 1923
1923: Foster Reports to the Red International of Labor Unions: The Revival of Industry from The Worker, February 17, 1923
1923: Letter from William Z. Foster in Chicago to Grigorii Zinoviev in Moscow, February 17, 1923
1923: Railroaders in Retreat
1923: Rail Strike Shows Price Workers Pay from The Worker, March 17, 1923
1923: Railroaders Hit Again by ’Labor’ Board from The Worker, March 24, 1923
1923: Rail Heads Balk Efforts at Solidarity from The Worker, March 31, 1923
1923: Russia Out of the Shadows
1923: W. Z. Foster on Witness Stand Explains T.U.E.L. Program from the Voice of Labor, April 6, 1923
1923: Foster Sees Labor Spurred Forward from The Worker, April 7, 1923
1923: Bosses’ Hopes Blasted from The Worker, April 21, 1923
1923: On Trial in Michigan
1923: Foster Sees Big Task Ahead for Militants of the East from The Worker, May 12, 1923
1923: The Needle, Shoe and Leather, Textile, and Eastern District Conferences
1923: Sacco and Vanzetti Must Be Set Free! from the Voice of Labor, June 9, 1923
1923: The Progressive Miners’ Conference
1923: Wm. Z. Foster’s Speech in Favor of the Formation of a Federated Labor Party from the Voice of Labor, July 14, 1923
1923: Organize the Unorganized
1923: The Federated Farmer-Labor Party
1923: Gompers Faces Triple Revolt
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1923: The Capitalists Want to Kill Foster! Workers! We Must Defend Our Leader! by John Pepper
1923: Attempted Assassination of Foster Fails in Reactionary War on T.U.E.L. Militants from The Worker, Sept. 8, 1923
1923: Foster Predicted Campaign of Violence As Next Step in War on T.U.E.L. by J. Louis Engdahl, from The Worker, Sept. 8, 1923
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1923: An Answer to “Justice”, Baroff, Sigman and Yanovsky from The Worker, October 13, 1923
1923: The Decatur Battle
1923: Statement on Our Labor Party Policy, November 1923 (with James P. Cannon)
1923: The A.F. of L. Convention
1923: The Foster-Sigman Letter from The Worker, November 17, 1923
1923: The Social Role of Fascism
1924: An Open Letter to John Fitzpatrick
1924: The Coming Struggle
1924: The Coming Miners’ Convention from the Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, January 13, 1924
1924: The Miners’ Convention
1924: Statement of Party Activities. A document prepared by William Z. Foster and unanimously adopted by the CEC of the WPA, March 18, 1924
1924: What’s Happening in Germany
1924: Our Left Wing Press from the Daily Worker, April 16, 1924
1924: Speech to the American Commission of the Communist International: Moscow, May 6, 1924
1924: A German Communist Meeting from the Daily Worker, May 6, 1924
1924: Foster’s Reply to Nearing from the Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, May 17, 1924
1924: Petty Bourgeois Leadership vs Proletarian Rank and File
1924: Aspects of the French Labor Movement
1924: LaFollette vs. the Farmer-Labor Party
1924: Russia in 1924, Labor Herald Library No. 11
1924: Foster in Plain Talk to Debs
1924: The Steel Campaign Fiasco
1924: R.W. Beattie, Labor Spy-Faker
1924: Abolition of Capitalism is Aim of Workers Party, Says Wm. Z. Foster to Daily Worker from the Daily Worker, August 21, 1924
1924: The Convention of the Congress for Progressive Political Action
1924: The Next Task of the Left Wing
1924: T.U.E.L. Greets British Militants from The Labor Herald, September 1924
1924: LaFollette, Gompers and Debs
1924: Foster Urges Real Workers’ Co-ops from the Daily Worker, October 10, 1924
1924: Steel Workers! Join Communists in Fight to Realize Labor’s Goal from the Daily Worker, October 23, 1924
1924: Destroy the LaFollette Illusion
1924: The Workers Party to the Fore
1924: Foster Exposes Tool of Imperialism [on Gompers and the AF of L Convention] from the Daily Worker, November 19, 1924
1924: Thesis on the Political Situation and the Immediate Tasks of the Workers Party (with Cannon, Bittelman, Browder, Dunne, Berman and Abern)
1924: The Significance of the Elections. Three Stages of Our Labor Party Policy
1924: What Our Labor Party Policy Has Accomplished from the Daily Worker, December 4, 1924
1924: The Comintern and the Farmer-Labor Party from the Daily Worker, December 9, 1924
1924: Minority Thesis Proposes Penetration of Third Party from the Daily Worker, December 24, 1924
1924: As to the “Marxian Trunk” of the Party
1924: Workers Party Repudiating Farmer-Laborism from the Daily Worker, December 31, 1924
1925: Lovestone’s Labor Party Book: “The Government – Strikebreaker” from the Daily Worker, January 7, 1925
1925: The Daily Worker – A Communist Builder from the Daily Worker, January 13, 1925
1925: The American Federation of Labor Convention
1925: The A.F. of L. and Trade Union Unity (with William F. Dunne)
1925: The Left Wing in Trade Union Elections
1925: The British Conference on World Trade Union Unity
1925: Amalgamation from Below
1925: Gudok
1925: Party Industrial Methods and Structure
1925: Party Trade Union Fractions
1925: The Ladies Garment Workers Awaken
1925: Loreism and Maneuvers from the Daily Worker, August 11, 1925
1925: Party Trade Union Work from the Daily Worker, August 15, 1925
1925: Company Unions
1925: The Party Reorganization from the Daily Worker, September 17, 1925
1925: The Left Wing Railroad Conference
1925: Speech by Wm. Z. Foster at Y.W.L. Convention from the Daily Worker, October 9, 1925
1925: The Daily Worker Must Be Saved! from the Daily Worker, October 14, 1925
1925: The Left Wing in the Needle Trades
1925: Drive Against Left Wing in Trade Unions from the Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, December 5, 1925
1926: Company Unionism and Trade Unionism
1926: The Fight Against Company Unionism, in Robert W. Dunn's Company Unions, Labor Herald Library No. 15
1926: Russian Workers and Workshops in 1926, Labor Herald Library No. 16
1926: Final Crisis Closer, says Wm. Z. Foster from the Daily Worker, May 6, 1926
1926: The Left Wing and the British Labor Movement from the Daily Worker, May 27, 1926
1926: Forward Follows Milstein in Discovering that the T.U.E.L. has an Office with A Doorway from Daily Worker, June 30, 1926
1926: Organize the Unorganized, Labor Herald Library No. 17
1926: On the Seventh Anniversary of Our Party from the New Magazine Supplement to the Daily Worker, August 28, 1926
1926: Keep the Daily Worker! from the Daily Worker, September 21, 1926
1926: The A.F. of L. Convention from the New Magazine Supplement to the Daily Worker, October 2, 1926
1926: Strike Strategy, Labor Herald Library No. 18
1926: Program for the Needleworkers’ Union
1927: The New War on Progress in the Trade Unions, from Labor Unity, January 1, 1927
1927: The Struggle in the Needle Trades
1927: Ruthenberg and the Labor Party from the Daily Worker, March 12, 1927
1927: Industrial Democracy. Not Through Class Collaboration, from Labor Unity, April 15, 1927
1927: The Drift of the Labor Bureaucracy to the Right from the Daily Worker, May Day Issue, 1927
1927: The Watson-Parker Law: The Latest Scheme to Hamstring Railroad Unionism, Labor Herald Library No. 19
1927: The Sacco-Vanzetti Case from the New Magazine Supplement to the Daily Worker, August 20, 1927
1927: The Labor Movement and the Sacco-Vanzetti Case from the New Magazine Supplement to the Daily Worker, August 27, 1927
1927: The A.F. of L. Convention from the New Magazine Supplement to the Daily Worker, September 24, 1927
1927: Misleaders of Labor
1927: Wrecking the Labor Banks: The Collapse of the Labor Banks and Investment Companies of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers., Labor Herald Library No. 20
1928: The Crisis in the Labor Movement from The Communist, January 1928
1928: Long Live Daily Worker! from Daily Worker, January 13, 1928
1928: Capitalist Efficiency "Socialism" from The Communist, February 1928
1928: The Russian Opposition from Daily Worker, February 8, 1928
1928: W. Z. Foster Spikes Stolberg's Slippery Review in "New Leader" from Daily Worker, February 18, 1928
1928: "Save the Daily Worker!" is call of Wm. Z. Foster to All Militant Workers
1928: Capitalist Efficiency "Socialism" (continued) from The Communist, March 1928
1928: Labor and Efficiency Engineers from Labor Unity, March 1928
1928: The Socialist Press: A Tool of Reaction from Daily Worker, March 31, 1928
1928: A Show-Down in the Mining Industry from Labor Unity, April 1928
1928: Tasks and Lessons of the Miners' Struggle from The Communist, April 1928
1928: Background of the Coal Miners Struggle from Daily Worker, April 2, 1928
1928: May Day, 1928, Sees Rise of New Spirit of Militancy in American Labor Movement from Daily Worker, May 1, 1928
1928: Two Mine Strike Strategies from The Communist, May 1928
1928: Acceptance Speech as Candidate for President of the Workers (Communist) Party
1928: Mahon Surrenders to Mitten from Labor Unity, June 1928
1928: The Mining Crisis Deepens from The Communist, June 1928
1928: Old Unions and New Unions from The Communist, July 1928
1928: Foster Begins Tour. Interview with Communist Candidate from Daily Worker, September 8, 1928
1928: Foster Is Given Big Welcome at St. Paul Meet from Daily Worker, September 14, 1928
1928: New Tasks of the T.U.E.L. from Labor Unity, October 1928
1928: White, Negro Workers Must Unite – Foster from Daily Worker, October 9, 1928
1928: Foster Exposes Tammany Graft from Daily Worker, October 15, 1928
1928: Communist Drive Centers on War Danger, Class Struggle from Daily Worker, October 27, 1928
1928: Foster Urges a Strong Finish to Election from Daily Worker, November 2, 1928
1928: Foster Exposes All Three Boss Parties in Speech from Daily Worker, November 5, 1928
1928: The Workers (Communist) Party in the South from The Communist, November 1928
1928: America Speaks on Soviet Russia from Labor Defender, November 1928
1928: For a Correct Bolshevist Line in the American Party Against the Right Danger, and Against the Cannon-Trotsky Opposition. Statement by the Minority of the Central Executive Committee [with Aronberg and Bittelman]
1928: Theses of the Foster-Bittelman Minority. To the Plenum of the Central Committee, on the Tasks of the Party in Present Situation
1928: The Minority on the Results of the Plenum [with Alexander Bittelman]
1929: Statement by Foster, Bittelman and Other Comrades from Daily Worker, January 7, 1929
1929: Statement by Foster, Aronberg and Bittelman for the Sake of Clarity from Daily Worker, January 10, 1929
1929: For Party Unity on the Basis of the Line of the Sixth World Congress (with Aronberg, Browder and Bittelman) from Daily Worker, January 21, 1929
1929: The Decline of the American Federation of Labor from Communist, January-February 1929
1929: As to New Lines and Old Lines Reply of Comrade Foster to Criticisms of his Article in the January-February number of "The Communist"
1929: Bourgeois Reformism and Social Reformism
1929: Bourgeois Reformism and Social Reformism (continued)
1929: Bourgeois Reformism and Social Reformism (continued)
1929: Trade Union League Calls Big National Congress; Aim New Trade Union Center for Class Struggle from Daily Worker, March 25, 1929
1929: Trade Union Unity Convention: A New Trade Union Center from Daily Worker, May 13, 1929
1929: Trade Union Unity Convention: Organization of Unorganized from Daily Worker, May 14, 1929
1929: Trade Union Unity Convention: Fight the Reformist Labor Leaders from Daily Worker, May 15, 1929
1929: Organize the Negro Workers! from Daily Worker, May 16, 1929
1929: Bedacht, Foster, Bittelman Urge Support of Address from Daily Worker, May 27, 1929
1929: For the Unity of the Party
1929: Trade Union Unity Call Gives Organizational Plan from Daily Worker, July 5, 1929
1929: Right Tendencies at the Trade Union Unity Conference from Communist, July 1929
1929: The T.U.U.L. Convention from Communist, September 1929
1929: Collapse of the Trade Union Capitalism of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers from International Press Correspondence, October 27, 1929
1929: The Party Trade Union Work During Ten Years from Communist, November 1929
1929: The Historic Southern Conferences from Labor Defender, November 1929
1930: The Growing World Offensive Against Capitalism from The Communist, March 1930
1930: The Liberals and March 6. Some Aspects of Unemployment Campaign from Daily Worker, April 9, 1930
1930: The Seventh Convention from Daily Worker, April 18, 1930
1930: Foster from Prison, Calls for Class War from Daily Worker, May 27, 1930
1930: A Letter from Prison on Approaching Election (with Amter, Minor, and Raymond) from Daily Worker, June 3, 1930
1930: Foster Writes to Metal Workers' Conference from Daily Worker, June 13, 1930
1930: "Save Daily!" – Foster from Daily Worker, June 19, 1930
1930: The Soviet Union and American Workers from Daily Worker, July 3, 1930
1930: Soviet Union and the Intellectuals from Daily Worker, July 15, 1930
1930: The Soviet Union and the Social-Fascists from Daily Worker, August 1, 1930
1930: The "Socialists" and the Elections from Daily Worker, August 21, 1930
1930: Free Speech in Boss-Ruled U.S.A. from Daily Worker, August 26, 1930
1930: The "Telegram" and Bread Riots from Daily Worker, August 28, 1930
1930: Foreign-Born Workers and the Elections from Daily Worker, August 29, 1930
1930: The New Wave of Wage-Cutting from Daily Worker, September 1, 1930
1930: Watching the Palatial Yachts from Daily Worker, September 6, 1930
1930: Foster Greets Ryan Walker on Joining Revolutionary "Daily" from Daily Worker, September 10, 1930
1930: "Socialist" Promises to Jobless Cover Their Starvation of Jobless in Practice from Daily Worker, September 15, 1930
1930: Mr. Broun Advertises His Qualities from Daily Worker, September 18, 1930
1930: "Who Needs This Prohibition 'Issue' Now?" Asks Foster from Daily Worker, October 10, 1930
1930: Fight the Injunction Menace! from Daily Worker, October 14, 1930
1930: Wm. Z. Foster Reads Communist Party Challenge to the Fish Committee Hearing from Daily Worker, December 6, 1930
1930: Before the Fish Committee from Daily Worker, December 12, 1930
1930: Workers! Don't Starve! Fight! Hunger Lines Keep on Growing from Daily Worker, December 27, 1930
1930: On the Question of Partial Demands from Daily Worker, December 30, 1930
1931: 1931 Will Be a Year of Sharpened Class Struggles[missing text due to printing error] from Daily Worker, January 1, 1931
1931: Starvation Stalks Through Coal Fields of Pennsylvania from Daily Worker, January 2, 1931
1931: Speed Up the Unemployment Campaign; Fight Starvation from Daily Worker, January 3, 1931
1931: "Stagger" Plan and Gradual Firing Steel Bosses' Weapon from Daily Worker, January 5, 1931
1931: Speed-Up and Mechanization Show Need for Organization from Daily Worker, January 6, 1931
1931: New Books for Workers to Read from Daily Worker, January 17, 1931
1931: Calverton's Fascism from the Communist, February 1931
1931: Intensify the Struggle for Jobless Insurance from Daily Worker, February 9, 1931
1931: The Training of T.U.U.L. Functionaries from Daily Worker, February 11, 1931
1931: The Americanization of the Party from Daily Worker, February 18, 1931
1931: The Awakening of the West from Daily Worker, February 21, 1931
1931: Fighter and Organizer [on C.E. Ruthenberg] from Daily Worker, February 28, 1931
1931: On the Question of Trade Union Democracy from the Communist, March 1931
1931: Women Bitterly Exploited in Industry; Answer Will Be Greater Organized Struggle from Daily Worker, March 2, 1931
1931: Howatt and Trotzkyites in New Betrayal of the Miners from Daily Worker, April 9, 1931
1931: Halt Wage Cut Drive of Bosses from Daily Worker, April 30, 1931
1931: Little Brothers of the Big Labor Fakers
1931: Foster Administers Crushing Defeat to Muste in Lively Debate; Exposes Demagogy from Daily Worker, May 11, 1931
1931: Musteism – “Left” Demagogy a la Mode from Communist, June 1931
1931: Railroad Workers, Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts! from Daily Worker, June 4, 1931
1931: Foster Tells of Strike of 20,000 Coal Miners Spreading; Fight On in Face of Difficulties from Daily Worker, June 11, 1931
1931: "Save Daily!" – Foster from Daily Worker, June 19, 1931
1931: The Coal Strike from the Communist, July 1931
1931: War in the Coal Fields from Labor Defender, July 1931
1931: Send Delegates to Pittsburgh from Southern Worker, July 4, 1931
1931: National Conference July 15th to Unify Miners' Forces for Struggle from Daily Worker, July 4, 1931
1931: Labor and Coal – A Review from Daily Worker, July 4, 1931
1931: Factors Governing Our Tactical Line from the Communist, August 1931
1931: Next Steps in the Coal Strike from the Communist, August 1931
1931: Build the Workers International Relief from Daily Worker, August 17, 1931
1931: 1,000 Hosiery Workers Cheer Foster Calling for Fight Against Wage Cuts from Daily Worker, September 5, 1931
1931: Shop Organization and Shop Activity from Daily Worker, September 7, 1931
1931: The Workers Delegation to the Soviet Union from Daily Worker, September 25, 1931
1931: Build the Youth Movement from Daily Worker, September 29, 1931
1931: Good Resolutions versus Bad Practice in Negro Work from Daily Worker, October 26, 1931
1931: The March of the Revolution from the Communist, November 1931
1931: Support the “Liberator” Drive from Daily Worker, November 7, 1931
1931: Dilettantism in Strikes from the Communist, December 1931
1931: Foster's Speech Rips Into Walker's Role in Mooney Case from Daily Worker, November 7, 1931
1931: Victorious Socialist Construction in the Soviet Union
1932: Trade Union Unity League Calls for Fight on R.R. Cut from Daily Worker, February 5, 1932
1932: Wm. Z. Foster Appeals to Save “Daily” from Daily Worker, February 12, 1932
1932: Revolutionary Unions and Int'l Women's Day from Daily Worker, March 2, 1932
1932: Foster Declares TUUL Will Fight Lynch Verdicts from Daily Worker, March 31, 1932
1932: Foster Calls for Mass Action to Free Frank Borich from Daily Worker, April 6, 1932
1932: Communists Propose Platform Against Hunger, Imperialist War; Wm. Z. Foster for President, J.W. Ford, Vice-President from Daily Worker, April 28, 1932
1932: Swinging Into Presidential Elections from Daily Worker, April 29, 1932
1932: Toward Soviet America
1932: The Socialist Party and Trade Unionism from Daily Worker, May 4, 1932
1932: Opportunity and Danger Confronting the Party from Daily Worker, May 9, 1932
1932: Mass Work in the Election Campaign from Daily Worker, May 12, 1932
1932: Shop Work in the Election Campaign from Daily Worker, May 13, 1932
1932: “Is the Only Worker Party.” Accepting Nomination, Foster Points Issue from Daily Worker, May 31, 1932
1932: Some Elementary Phases of the Work in the Reformist Unions from the Communist, June 1932
1932: We Must Follow St. Louis, Says Foster from Daily Worker, July 18, 1932
1932: Foster Hails Struggle in N. Carolina from Daily Worker, July 25, 1932
1932: Caught! Socialist Sheet Steels Foster's Speech, Substitutes "Socialist" for Communist
1932: Foster Calls "Red Plot" Story Pretext for Raids; Says Bankers Ruin Banks from Daily Worker, July 29, 1932
1932: What Foster Says of Socialist Political Swindle from Daily Worker, August 1, 1932
1932: William Z. Foster Says "Let Us Save Our Daily" from Daily Worker, August 10, 1932
1932: Foster Arrested in Scranton; Arrest is Move for Wage Slash from Daily Worker, August 15, 1932
1932: Socialist Party – Foster – and the War. Regarding Charges Circulated about Foster, and the Motive Statement by Central Committee, CPUSA
1932: The Revolutionary Way Out!
1932: Foster Challenges Cox to Defend Program of His "Jobless Party" from Daily Worker, August 27, 1932
1932: Who is Roosevelt?
1932: Who is Roosevelt? (continued) from Daily Worker, August 30, 1932
1932: "The Success of All Our Struggles Depends on Your Answer!" Says William Z. Foster, on Behalf of the Trade Union Unity League from Daily Worker, September 6, 1932
1932: Foster and Ford Appeal from Campaign Front to Workers to Save "Daily" from Daily Worker, September 10, 1932
1932: For a United Struggle Against Starvation Speech of William Z. Foster, delivered at the Chicago Coliseum, Sept. 10, 1932
1932: Foster Sick; Unable to Speak for Period; Dunne Fills Dates from Daily Worker, September 13, 1932
1932: Tour Strain Forces Rest on Foster from Daily Worker, September 15, 1932
1932: Culture and the Crisis an An open letter to the writers, artists, teachers, physicians, engineers, scientists and other professional workers of America
1932: Bosses Consciously Building Up Norman Thomas; Fear the Rising Struggles of Workers, Says Foster from Daily Worker, October 3, 1932
1932: Bankers, Trusts Responsible for Ruin of Farmers; Boss Parties Their Tools; Socialists Smother Fight on Monopolists, Says Foster from Daily Worker, October 5, 1932
1932: "U.S. Bosses for Imperialist Gains at Expense of Irish Masses," Foster from Daily Worker, October 17, 1932
1932: Foster Charges Wide Denial for Votes to Unemployed, Negroes; Bosses Fear Rising Revolutionary Mood of Toilers from Daily Worker, October 18, 1932
1932: Foster Calls for a Big Red Vote from Daily Worker, November 2, 1932
1932: Foster To Phone Speech to Crowd in the Garden from Daily Worker, November 4, 1932
1932: "The Capitalists Are Unable to Operate Industries," Says Foster Address, Madison Square Garden, Sunday, November 6, from Daily Worker, November 7, 1932
1932: Wm. Z. Foster Issues Statement on Results of U.S. Election from Daily Worker, November 10, 1932
1932: Only Militant Struggle of the Masses Can Defeat the Bosses' Starvation Program from Daily Worker, November 17, 1932
1932: 'Aid Scottsboro Fund Drive' from Daily Worker, December 10, 1932
1933: Technocracy and Marxism [with Earl Browder)
1933: Foster Visits Soviet Union from Daily Worker, August 23, 1933
1934: William Z. Foster, Improved in Health, Returns to U.S. After Stay in Soviet Union from Daily Worker, January 19, 1934
1934: William Z. Foster Visits "Daily" for the First Time in Sixteen Months; Praises Improvement, Hails Drive for 10,000 New Readers from Daily Worker, January 22, 1934
1935: The New Political Bases for a Labor Party in the United States
1935: Fascism Is Read Peril in America, Foster Tells the World Congress [of the Communist International] from Daily Worker, August 7, 1935
1935: A Trip Through the White Sea-Baltic Canal from Daily Worker, August 13, 1935
1935: Foster Greets Red Candidate in Winnipeg from Daily Worker, September 20, 1935
1935: Fascist Tendencies in the United States from The Communist, October 1935
1935: Foster Returns from Soviet Union from Daily Worker, November 6, 1935
1935: Foster to Return to Active Work; Will Speak Sunday from Daily Worker, November 11, 1935
1935: Victory Banquet Hails Appearance of Foster from Daily Worker, November 19, 1935
1935: Meaning of Lewis's Resignation and the Industrial Union Fight from Daily Worker, November 28, 1935
1935: Syndicalism in the United States from The Communist, November 1935
1935: Foster Exposes Frey Flaunting Wishes of His Own Union from Daily Worker, December 23, 1935
1935: Foster Appeals for Funds for Our Hundred Neediest – Jailed First Rank Fighters from Daily Worker, December 24, 1935
1935: Communists Call for Building Farmer-Labor Party Now (with Earl Browder) from Daily Worker, December 26, 1935
1936: For a Powerful United A.F. of L. (with Earl Browder)
1936: Why Trade Unionists Should Join the Communist Party from Daily Worker, February 18, 1936
1936: The Industrial Union Bloc in the American Federation of Labor
1936: Foster's Speech [opening the 9th CPUSA Convention] from Daily Worker, June 25, 1936
1936: Foster to Preside at Sunday Session from Daily Worker, June 26, 1936
1936: All Labor Must Answer Steel Barons' Declaration of War! from Daily Worker, July 1, 1936
1936: Foster Points Out Lessons of Great 1919 Steel Strike from Daily Worker, July 6, 1936
1936: Foster Stresses Need of Discipline in Steel Drive from Daily Worker, July 8, 1936
1936: Foster Says Steel Labor Must Rely on Own Strength from Daily Worker, July 10, 1936
1936: Foster Refutes Green Claim of Aid by A.F. of L. Chiefs in the 1919 Steel Campaign from Daily Worker, July 10, 1936
1936: Foster Outlines Organizing Tasks in Steel Drive from Daily Worker, July 13, 1936
1936: Foster Answers Green on Finances, Says Gompers Sabotaged 1919 Strike from Daily Worker, July 13, 1936
1936: Foster to Head Communist Election Campaign Committee from Daily Worker, July 18, 1936
1936: Foster Announces National Committee for Election Drive from Daily Worker, July 20, 1936
1936: Steel Trust Concessions are 'Illusory,' Foster Asserts from Daily Worker, July 25, 1936
1936: Foster Assails 'Suspension' of C.I.O. as Great Crime Against the Working Class from Daily Worker, August 8, 1936
1936: Industrial Unionism
1936: Unionizing Steel
1936: Steel: The Great Battlefield [review of Unionzing Steel] from Daily Worker, August 19, 1936
1936: Foster Sends Personal Appeal to All Communists in Missouri to Put Party on the Ballot from Daily Worker, August 20, 1936
1936: Forward to a Mass Communist Party! from Daily Worker, September 16, 1936
1936: Steel Workers Eager for Unionization; W. Z. Foster Urges Drive Be Intensified from Daily Worker, October 5, 1936
1936: Election Drive in Danger. Foster Appeals to Units from Daily Worker, October 6, 1936
1936: Foster Urges Full Support to YCL Drive for 20,000 Members by Jan. 1 from Daily Worker, October 12, 1936
1936: Organizing Methods in the Steel Industry
1936: Foster to Speak at Chicago and Detroit Election Rallies. Beloved Labor Leader to Appear at Scene of Greatest Battles from Daily Worker, October 21, 1936
1936: The Communist Party on the Results of the Elections (with Earl Browder) from Daily Worker, November 7, 1936
1936: The Crisis in the Socialist Party
1936: Prevent the A.F.L. Split from Spreading; Re-Unite the Trade Union Movement (with Earl Browder) from Daily Worker, November 7, 1936
1936: Foster and Browder Ask Action in Drive for Daily Worker (with Earl Browder) from Daily Worker, December 15, 1936
1937: What Means a Strike in Steel?
1937: The Convention of the American Federation of Labor
1937: Full Steam Ahead! Unionize All Auto Shops!
1937: Questions and Answers on the Piatakov-Radek Trial
1937: The Significance of the Sit-Down Strike from the Communist, April 1937
1937: The Renaissance of the American Trade Union Movement
1937: Political Leadership and Party Building [Based on speech delivered at the plenary meeting of the C.C. of the C.P.U.S.A., held June 17-20, 1937] from the Communist, July 1937
1937: A Manual of Industrial Unionism
1937: Railroad Workers, Forward!
1937: From Bryan to Stalin
1937: More Pages from a Worker's Life
1937: American Origins of the People's Front from the Communist, December 1937
1938: The Congress of the Communist Party of France from the Communist, February 1938
1938: Introduction to The Meaning of the Soviet Trials (written by E. Yaroslavsky)
1938: World Fascism and War from the Communist, April 1938
1938: Stop Wage-cuts and Layoffs on the Railroads. A Reply to President T.C. Cashen of the Switchmen's Union of North America
1938: The Socialist Party Convention from the Communist, June 1938
1938: Win the Western Hemisphere for Democracy and Peace! from the Communist, July 1938
1938: The American Federation of Labor and Trade Union Progress from the Communist, August 1938
1938: The Communist Party and the Professionals from the Communist, September 1938
1938: Panacea Mass Movements from the Communist, November 1938
1938: Panacea Mass Movements, Part II from the Communist, December 1938
1938: Norman Thomas: Defeatist from the New Masses, December 13, 1938
1939: Isolationist Defeatism! from the The Communist, January 1939
1939: New Methods of Political Mass Organization from the Communist, February 1939
1939: The Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba from the Communist, March 1939
1939: The Human Element in Mass Agitation from the Communist, April 1939
1939: The Technique of the Mass Campaign from the Communist, May 1939
1939: Main Organizational Tasks of the Democratic Front from the Communist, June 1939
1939: Your Questions Answered on Politics, Peace, Economics, Anti-Semitism, Race Prejudice, Religion, Trade Unionism, Americanism, Democracy, Socialism, Communism
1939: Building the Western-Hemisphere Democratic Front from the Communist, July 1939
1939: Secondary Aspects of Mass Organization from the Communist, August 1939
1939: Foster Tells How Pact is Aid to Peace [on the Hitler-Stalin Pact] from the Daily Worker, August 29, 1939
1939: Twenty Years of Communist Trade Union Policy from the Communist, September 1939
1939: Taking the Railroad Moguls for a Ride
1939: Specific Organizational Features of the Democratic Front in the United States from the Communist, October 1939
1939: He Wrote His Name in the Heart of the Masses, tribute to Moissaye J. Olgin
1939: Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders
1940: The War Crisis. Questions and Answers
1940: William Green Reconstructs Labor History from the Communist, January 1940
1940: Seven Years of Roosevelt from the Communist, March 1940
1940: The War Aims of American Imperialism from the Communist, April 1940
1940: World Socialism and the War from the Communist, June 1940
1940: Capitalism, Socialism and the War
1940: What's What About the War
1940: The Three Basic Tasks of the Communist Peace Policy from the Communist, July 1940
1940: The Pan-American Conference in Havana from the Communist, September 1940
1940: The Trade Unions and the War from the Communist, October 1940
1940: For a People's Policy in U.S.-Soviet Relations! from the Communist, November 1940
1940: The United States and the Soviet Union
1941: Organized Labor's Two Conventions from the Communist, January 1941
1941: Socialism. The Road to Peace, Prosperity and Freedom
1941: World Capitalism and World Socialism
1941: Earl Browder Remains the Heroic Leader of the People from the Communist, March 1941
1941: James B. NcNamara from the Communist, April 1941
1941: American Fascism Speaks Out from the Communist, April 1941
1941: Communism versus Fascism
1941: Earl Browder and the Fight for Peace from the Communist, June 1941
1941: The People's Program of Struggle for the Defeat of Hitler and Hitlerism (with Robert Minor) from the Daily Worker, June 30, 1941
1941: Yankee Imperialism Grabs for the Western Hemisphere from the Communist, July 1941
1941: Seattle Rally Hails Foster Call for anti-Hitler Unity from the Daily Worker, July 9, 1941
1941: Text (abridged) of William Z. Foster's Report to the National Committee of the Communist Party [on the Nazi invasion of the USSR]
1940: For the Military Destruction of Hitlerism! from the Communist, September 1941
1941: The Soviet Union: Friend and Ally of the American People
1941: The Soviet Union and the Course of the War from the Communist, November 1941
1941: The Tasks of the Communist Party in the War from the Communist, December 1941
1942: Labor and the War
1942: Trade Unions in the War Emergency from the Communist, January 1942
1942: From Defense to Attack
1942: The Rio de Janeiro Conference from the Communist, March 1942
1942: Smash Hitler's Spring Offensive Now!
1942: John L. Lewis and the War from the Communist, July 1942
1942: The War and Labor Unity from the Communist, September 1942
1942: The Miners' Convention from the Communist, November 1942
1943: The People and the Congress
1943: The Reactionary Offensive and the War from the Communist, April 1943
1943: The Strike of the Coal Miners from the Communist, June 1943
1943: For Speedy Victory The Second Front Now
1943: Labor's General Staffs Meet from the Communist, October 1943
1943: Soviet Democracy and the War
1943: The CIO National Convention from the Communist, December 1943
1944: Letter to the National Committee
1944: The Hoover-Dewey-McCormick Election Threat to Teheran from the Communist, July 1944
1944: Dewey and Teheran from the Communist, November 1944
1945: The Coal Miners. Their Problems in War and Peace
1945: The World Trade Union Conference from Political Affairs, March 1945
1945: A New World trade Union Federation is Born from Political Affairs, April 1945
1945: Organized Labor Faces the New World
1945: The Danger of American Imperialism in the Post-War Period from Political Affairs, June 1945
1945: On the Question of Revisionism
1945: The Struggle Against Revisionism
1945: Correspondence Between Luis Carlos Prestes and William Z. Foster from Political Affairs, October 1945
1945: The Strike Situation and Organized Labor's Wage and Job Strategy
1945: An Indispensable Labor Manual from Political Affairs, November 1945
1945: Truman's Bomb Policy from New Masses, November 20, 1945
1945: For a Fighting Communist Party!
1945: The Rankin Witch Hunt
1946: Leninism and Some Practical Problems of the Postwar Period from Political Affairs, February 1946
1946: U.S. Relations with Latin America from Political Affairs, March 1946
1946: On Self-Determination for the Negro People [From a speech at the National Board, C.P.U.S.A. March 28, 1946] from Political Affairs, June 1946
1946: On the Expulsion of Browder from Political Affairs, April 1946
1946: Elements of a People's Cultural Policy from New Masses, April 23, 1946
1946: Problems of Organized Labor Today
1946: One Year of Struggle Against Browderism [Opening remarks at the plenary meeting of tht National Committee, C.P.U.S.A., July 16-18, 1946] from Political Affairs, September 1946
1946: American Imperialism, Leader of World Reaction from Political Affairs, August 1946
1946: Remarks of William Z. Foster [at the discussion of the Negro question at the plenary meeting of the National Committee of tbe Communist Pary, December 3-5, 1946] from the pamphlet The Communist Position on the Negro Question
1947: Workers, Defend Your Unions!
1947: Quarantine the War Mongers
1947: The Meaning of the 9-Party Communist Conference
1947: Organized Labor and the Fascist Danger
1948: Labor and the Marshall Plan
1948: Danger Ahead for Organized Labor
1948: The Crime of El Fanguito. An Open Letter to President Truman on Puerto Rico
1949: In Defense of the Communist Party and the Indicted Leaders
1949: Patriots Fight for Peace! (with Eugene Dennis)
1951: Outline Political History of the Americas
1952: History of the Communist Party of the United States (off site)
1952: The Steel Workers and the Fight for Labor's Rights
1953: Reader's Guide to William Z. Foster's History of the Communist Party of the United States
1954: The Negro People in American History, (200Mb)
1955:The History of the Three Internationals
1955:The Role of Mao Tse-tung, from History of the Three Internationals
1956: The Revaluation of Stalin's Work, from Daily Worker, March 18, 1956
1956: Lessons from the Stalin Question, from Daily Worker, March 28, 1956
1956: What Was Done to Check Stalin?, from Daily Worker, April 2, 1956
1956: How the Stalin Cult Developed, from Daily Worker, April 4, 1956
1956: Why the Stalin Revaluation Takes Place at this Time, from Daily Worker, April 10, 1956
1956: Stalin's Excesses and Distortions, from Daily Worker, April 19, 1956
1956: The Stalin Cult of the Individual, from Daily Worker, July 2, 1956
1956: Achievements As Well As Mistakes, from Daily Worker, July 5, 1956
1956: A Reply to the New York Post..., from Daily Worker, July 25, 1956
1956: Gov't Attacks on Party Members and the 'Big Lie' Took Heavy Toll, from Daily Worker, August 26, 1956
1956: Left Writers on American Themes, from Daily Worker, September 16, 1956
1956: Marxism-Leninism in a Changing World, Part I, from Political Affairs, September 1956
1956: On the Party Situation, from Political Affairs, October 1956
1956: Foster Writes on the Hungarian Question, from Daily Worker, November 21, 1956
1956: Foster Discusses 'Stalin Era' by Anna Louise Strong, from Daily Worker, December 3, 1956
1956: Marxism-Leninism in a Changing World, Part II, from Political Affairs, December 1956
Comment on Foster by Max Eastman