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

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

In the past, the Times has been just as much Republican as Democrat, but here is their editorial board condemning the entire Republican Party. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists who

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

Mike Elk, Payday Report, November 2 https://paydayreport.com/10-major-unions-over-100-black-clergy-call-for-general-strike-if-trump-steals-the-election/ Last month, Payday broke the story of the 70,00

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,

Toure Reed writes the same exact article that his dad Adolph and Cedric Johnson write as if constant repetition will win people to their class-reductionism. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/sanders-race

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

I've already posted a link to this podcast. After listening to it myself, I have to recommend it a second time. August is brilliant. https://cosmonaut.blog/tag/august-nimtz/

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

It was summer almost half a century ago when I got into that Volkswagen van and began my trip across country with Peter, a photographer friend. I was officially doing so as a reporter for a small San

Austria: Daesh is the Bullet but Macron is the Political Assassin! The terrorist attack is the inevitable result of imperialist wars and racist oppression Emergency Statement by the RKO LIBERATION (Au

France: “Our Republic”? Social-Chauvinism and Capitulation to Islamophobia by the Left By Michael Pröbsting, 2 November 2020 https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/social-chauvinism-and-capitu

Interview with Ruthann Miller, ex-SWP, about her role in the The Women’s Strike for Equality in August 1970 https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/womens-strike-equality-liberation-betty-friedan

The Stonewall Riots gave birth to the modern LGBTQ movement as we know it. On its 51st anniversary, we are witnessing the most significant rebellion against racism and police violence in more than hal