Resources: Walls of Anxiety: The Iconography of Anti-NATO protests in Spain, 1981–6 Spain and NATO
“Paper Bullets” 41a (Spain) economy and austerity cuts
“Paper Bullets” 41c (Spain) Catalan independence movement
“Paper Bullets” 43a (Spain) Gender and sexuality
“Paper Bullets” 36a (Germany) Die Linke political party
“Paper Bullets” 21b (Germany) Anti-nationalism
“Paper Bullets” 21a (Germany) Capitalism, economy(ies)
“Paper Bullets” 22b (Germany) Surveillance/technology
“Paper Bullets” 22a (Germany) Reclaim the streets, urban re-development, gentrification, squats
Early history of I.W.W. “stickerettes” or “silent agitators”
[Note: a shorter version of this essay first appeared as “Silent Agitators: Early Stickerettes from the Industrial Workers of the World” in Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture. Volume 6 (February 2018), PM Press. See also the timeline I put together of early advertisements and newspapers articles about I.W.W. stickerettes.] Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W. or “Wobblies”) fought for economic justice for the working class using many tactics, including the widespread use of cartoons, slogans, leaflets, poetry, and songs that appealed to uneducated, immigrant, and itinerant workers. As early as…