As wars ratchet up across the globe and the ecological crisis wreaks widespread havoc, internationalist politics is more necessary than ever. Cornel West explains why the fight for climate justice must join with an anti-militarist movement now.
Without cultivating a strong sense of solidarity with mass numbers of people we’ll never meet, we’re doomed to slip further into atomized isolation and defeat.
The Obama presidency gave rise to a uniquely powerful iconography that projected a sense of hope and radical possibility. But behind the president’s messianic imagery was a country unraveling at the seams — and a president who stood for nothing.
Shortly before his death, Martin Luther King delivered a speech at Carnegie Hall in honor of another legendary black radical: W. E. B. Du Bois. We reprint it here in full.
The Left shouldn't sharply separate "moral" discourse from "self-interested" discourse, because the two are closely intertwined.
Despite what conservative pundits say, socialists don’t hate religion. In fact, only democratic socialism can realize the religious promise of a brotherhood of man.
Major league baseball has a long but little-known history of rebels, reformers, and radicals.
The Tet Offensive was a powerful blow against US imperialism and a boon to the antiwar movement.
McDonald’s has long portrayed itself as a champion of black uplift through black ownership of its franchises. But McDonald’s version of black capitalism, like the idea of black capitalism as a whole, has only ever benefited the few, not the many.
In 1972, black political leaders and activists convened in Gary, Indiana, to develop a unified black political program. But the convention’s emphasis on racial cohesion overlooked the realities of black class stratification and internal ideological divisions.
What use is playing the long game when the arc of the universe feels so frighteningly short?
Law and lawyers can’t save us from the creeping police state – but politics might.
While Mandela was certainly a “great historical figure,” too many tributes have been unable to move beyond hagiography.
Liberals fear the term “entitlements,” but that's language the Left should claim.
Battles against today’s ruling class might look back to the movements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for inspiration.
Mad Men brilliantly shows the everyday cruelties of the old order, but insists that those who challenged them were fools.
When it comes to democracy, the United States often needs to be student rather than tutor.
How did we end up with millions behind bars and police armed like soldiers?
