(JAI: Biden was supposed to win Virginia and be a toss up in Florida and make a good showing in Georgia. He did none of these. Part of the reason is that the Democrats keep on insisting that they will

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Reflecting on the end of the election period, Luis Meiners compares the sharp attention to issues of empire paid by the U.S. establishment, with the relative silence on the part of much of the U.S. Le

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/world/middleeast/robert-fisk-dead.html Robert Fisk, Intrepid War Correspondent, Dies at 74 “You cannot get near the truth without being there,” he said. Working for

Reading about the putting-out system in Jairus Banaji's "Commercial Capitalism", which had workers in their own homes using their own handicrafts to produce finished goods for the capitalist who suppl

It seems to me that all-purpose B flat white men--that semi-declasse mix originating with the Colonial Frontier Blend of demotic Scots, Ulster Scots (by no means mostly resident in Appalachia), and Ge

I repeat one of my main points: Trying to analyze where the capitalist class is at, and why the main wings of it support who they support, has nothing in common with our supporting or opposing any of

FYI. No identifiable reference to socialism or class warfare anywhere on the site. https://www.shutdowndc.org/

The far-right violence that Donald Trump has stoked has deep roots in US history. Kicking him from office won’t change that — but it would deal a blow to right-wing vigilantism. https://jacobinmag.com

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/timeless-music-rebels-cause Timeless music for rebels with a causeA double album of covers that takes the listener on a tour on protest, struggle and hope, wr

This is great! Trumka of course is fighting this even if Trump wins. I wonder if the unions et al are prepared to call for a general strike if Biden wins. One or more will certainly be needed once the

Socialist Resurgence Radio interviews Doug Greene, Marxist historian and author about his forthcoming book, A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism (Zero Books,

Here's a more exhaustive review of Ira Katznelson's book. PoliticsUnited StatesInternationalHuman RightsClimate ChangeElection 2020 LiteratureFictionPoetryBiography & MemoirIn TranslationEssays ArtsVi

In another CounterPunch article titled "Bayard Rustin Nostalgia", I discuss the concessions the social democrats made to the trade union bureaucracy. The source of much of my analysis came from Michae

Louis, I'm quite interested in this subject/debate. Judith Stein's book Running Steel is on my reading list, as is Herbert Hill's lengthy review of it in New Politics. I probably should have read Stei

On 1 October, one of Medellín’s leading radical public intellectuals, historians and humanists, Campo Elías Galindo, was tortured and murdered in his apartment. There was blood everywhere. The neo-fas

Italian Americans were the second-largest white ethnic group to vote for Trump, behind German Americans and ahead of English and Irish Americans, according to a small but revealing 2016 post-election

There was an interesting debate between August Nimtz, David Laibman, and Paul Blackledge on electoral politics in S&S recently (April, July 2019; July 2020. Attached)

Reuven Kaminer was on Marxmail some years ago. I had lunch with him and his wife over a decade ago. They told me that they were young members of the CP in Detroit in the 1950s but emigrated to Israel

An academic argues that the discipline of history was used to defend empire and imperialism in a vital, if flawed, study (The flaw is that it views history as cyclical.) https://www.theguardian.com/bo