Blue MAGA's Big Lie - CounterPunch.org As a Green who just watched the morally bankrupt Dem establishment railroad our stellar Senate candidate off the ballot in North Carolina, this piece really

As Mark L. correctly points out, it is not a question of counterposing "conversion of activists into 'hard-core Marxists", to intervention into "Democrat-dominated political venues". It's not about

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 04:25 PM, Bradley Mayer wrote: The social revolutionary element of the civil war - the abolition of slavery - was accomplished by Blacks themselves, against the wishes of the

This discussion has actually become more interesting, albeit somewhat centrifugally, than when it started. I totally disagree with the post-structuralist comment by Brad about "...the social

A transcript of the Democracy Now interview mentioned by Andrew Stewart can be found at https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/1/rebecca_gomperts_prescribing_abortion_pills_abroad

The Republic of Buryatia: invasion of Ukraine is an extension of Russia’s domestic dominance over the country's ethnic minorities Ukrainians and Buryats share a history of Russian abuse by Roman

Documents Reveal Hundreds of Russian Troops Broke Ranks Over Ukraine Orders Desertions and refusal to engage in the invasion have put Moscow in a bind over how to punish service members without

Although Kagarlitsky has recently put some daylight between himself and the Kremlin, imo (like that of the late Louis Proyect) Boris should not be looked to for a revolutionary socialist understanding

A few comments. 1) David Green should be more careful. Black LivesMatter did not receive funding until it had already become an importantmovement and was in the process of becoming a mass movement.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 06:18 PM, Roger Kulp wrote: You can't tell me if Texas did secede, there would not be people who would offer poor African-American people, immigrants, etc funds to moveThat's a

UkraineSocialist Solidarity Campaign Forum Prelude to 2022: 2014, Russian Annexation of Crimea and the“People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk” Featured Speaker: Simon Pirani Simon is the

From Vanity Fair 01/06 Was Only the Beginning January 6 Was the Beginning of Ashli Babbitt as martyr in Trump’s cult. To Trump’s true believers, the insurrection was an act of faith, Ashli

Sartesian wrote Same thing was said by certain abolitionists 160 years ago. And where would that have left the enslaved African-Americans? Today 14% of the population in Texas officially lives in

Democracy Now had a story on this a few days ago. While I certainly am adamantly pro choice and absolutely support whatever means that a woman opts for in order to have an abortion, it also is

Wow, this thread is still going...on William Appleman Williams, in Contours of American History he characterized the 1787 Constitution as "feudal". That is a gross overstatement based upon my own

As the former editor and designer of Socialist Action newspaper, I have dozens of pdf facsimiles of the old issues of SA in my computer, and I have promised David W. that I would contribute them to

Michael, can you provide one of reason for a "left" scholar to suggest such a thing? David

This is a huge and fascinating question. In fact at labor tech conference in a few weeks I'll be reporting on this very issues. The most important aspect of scanning/digitizing our common history's

Today I wanted to look back at old issues of Socialist Action (US). I could not find an archive aside from the one that appears on the Marxist’s Internet Archive. And that runs only to 1992. How

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 02:14 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote: Subscribers to this list might find this hard to believe, but William A. Williams (a dedicated left wing historian who considered himself an