Compiled from several generations in America and from around the world, the songs and sheet music in this compendium were originally written in English, Danish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Yiddish. From Industrial Workers of the World anthems such as “The Preacher and the Slave” to Lenin’s favorite 1905 revolutionary anthem “Whirlwinds of Danger,” many of the world’s greatest radical songwriters are anthologized herein: Edith Berkowitz, Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Chaplin, James Connolly, Havelock Ellis, Emily Fine, Arturo Giovaniti, Joe Hill, Langston Hughes, William Morris, James Oppenheim, Teresina Rowell, Anna Spencer, Maurice Sugar, and dozens more. Old favorites and hidden gems can once again energize and accompany picket lines, demonstrations, meetings, sit-ins, marches, and May Day parades.

Elizabeth Morgan is a longtime socialist activist who ran for Congress in Ohio on the Socialist ticket. She is a progressive educator and founder of the Arthur Morgan School, a progressive boarding school for grades seven through nine in Burnsville, North Carolina. She lives in Chicago. Utah Phillips was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, and poet who often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words.