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.
Chokwe Lumumba discusses popular power and the past and future of revolutionary struggle in the American South.
A historian debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.
How a Montana town came together to shut down a white-supremacist march led by Richard Spencer.
Writers in the US must embrace traditions of radical dissent — not American exceptionalism — if they want to resist Trump.
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 "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.
In a never-before-released thesis, Reagan’s FEMA director discussed the potential internment of millions of blacks in concentration camps.
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.
How an uncompromising spirit lead the CTU to victory.
Rep. Paul Ryan’s recent explanations for urban poverty don’t differ significantly from President Obama’s.
To many liberals, injustice is a product of misunderstanding, the result of faceless processes that no one really benefits from.
Decades of history has shown us what a national march can accomplish.
When Bernie Sanders says “It’s not about me, it’s about us,” he’s not just pandering. He’s trying to create a mass movement — because he knows that without one, his agenda doesn’t stand a chance.
Donald Trump wants to use the Insurrection Act to deploy military troops on the streets of American cities. It’s an act of desperation that will probably backfire — but an alarming sign of the lengths he may be willing to go to save his disintegrating presidency.
Don't let opponents of the current racial justice protests fool you by citing public opinion polls — such polls often showed the majority of American opposed to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Public opinion is not immovable through protest.
Protesters are peacefully demonstrating outside the homes of Supreme Court justices who are about to overturn Roe v. Wade — and conservatives are demanding the government arrest them.
Twentieth-century black labor leader Ernest Calloway never became a household name. But through his work in both the Teamsters and the NAACP, he embodied the transformative potential of a united labor and civil rights movement.
Philosopher and activist Cornel West discusses the presidential election and why a democratic socialist vision is necessary to overcome capitalism and build a better society.
