The Strike That Didn’t Change New York
The Chicago teachers’ strike was a victory for workers around the country. But how do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement that could ignite a shift in public policy?
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The FBI’s Secret War
Sixty years ago, the FBI launched COINTELPRO. Its mission was simple: destroy the Left.
Hate Racism? Oppose the CIA
The CIA made waves this week for a video that uses social justice language to try to gin up recruitment. But opposing racism and achieving social justice means opposing everything the CIA stands for.
You’ve Been Lied to About the 1963 March on Washington
The March on Washington was 59 years ago today. It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration where MLK “had a dream” — but in fact, it was the decades-long culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice.
Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism
Defenders of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza have attempted to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism. But since its beginning, different forms of Zionist ideology have competed with varied anti-Zionisms for Jewish allegiance.
Nixon’s Basic Income Plan
Why Richard Nixon once advocated for basic income — and then turned against it.
We Can’t Talk About the Racist Massacre in Buffalo Without Talking About Capitalism
We are not being honest about the horrific racist violence that took place in Buffalo this weekend and the racial inequality throughout the United States if we ignore how capitalism brought us here.
Free the Land: An Interview with Chokwe Lumumba
Chokwe Lumumba discusses popular power and the past and future of revolutionary struggle in the American South.
Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?
A historian debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.
We Can Make the Nazis Back Down
How a Montana town came together to shut down a white-supremacist march led by Richard Spencer.
Against Literary Nationalism
Writers in the US must embrace traditions of radical dissent — not American exceptionalism — if they want to resist Trump.
Gene Sharp, the Cold War Intellectual Whose Ideas Seduced the Left
Gene Sharp has been called the most important American political figure you’ve never heard of. How did a militant Cold Warrior come to wield so much influence in protest movements from Venezuela to the Middle East?
The Sheer Absurdity of Trump’s “1776 Commission” Report Is Hard to Overstate
The "1776 Commission" report released by Donald Trump just before his exit from the presidency is so staggeringly awful, trotting out every moldy reactionary trope about the history of the United States it can, that it has to be read to be believed.
Contingency Plans
In a never-before-released thesis, Reagan’s FEMA director discussed the potential internment of millions of blacks in concentration camps.
A. Philip Randolph Was Once “the Most Dangerous Negro in America”
The organizer of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech was also the leader of the first successful black labor union. For A. Philip Randolph, labor and civil rights were one and the same.
One, Two, Many Chicago Teachers’ Strikes
How an uncompromising spirit lead the CTU to victory.
Poverty and the “Tailspin of Culture”
Rep. Paul Ryan’s recent explanations for urban poverty don’t differ significantly from President Obama’s.
Why I’m Not a Liberal
To many liberals, injustice is a product of misunderstanding, the result of faceless processes that no one really benefits from.
What a Medicare March Could Do
Decades of history has shown us what a national march can accomplish.