When George Wallace Came to Town
Donald Trump's appeal to some suffering white workers shouldn't surprise us. George Wallace did the same thing four decades ago.
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A Demand for Sanctuary
As Trump's threats to immigrants grow, we should look back to the 1980s Central American sanctuary movement's victories.
The Lost History of Antifa
72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa.
Out of Left Field
Major league baseball has a long but little-known history of rebels, reformers, and radicals.
The UPS Strike, Two Decades Later
Twenty years ago, workers ground one of the world's largest corporations to a halt. And workers in the logistics industry could do it again today.
The Beginning of the End
The Tet Offensive was a powerful blow against US imperialism and a boon to the antiwar movement.
Who Killed the Antiwar Movement?
We need a movement against war and imperialism that isn’t tied to the Democratic Party.
Civil Rights Unionism
In 1940s North Carolina, a Communist-led union of tobacco workers fought to bring democracy to the Jim Crow South.
Chapo Trap House, Between Hope and Nihilism
Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman on pulling angry young men away from the alt right, consumption choices as politics, the grotesqueries of American life, and his commitment to “optimism of the will and all that shit.”
Deeper Into the Dark
On Sunday, the far right had its best ever result in Sweden. And they're pushing the rest of the political spectrum to capitulate to their agenda.
Defend the Post Office, Defend Black Workers
The United States Postal Service is a crucial institution for black workers in America. That's why Bernie Sanders's strong support for defending and expanding the USPS is a key racial justice issue.
How a Telephone Workers’ Strike Thirty Years Ago Aided the Fight for Single Payer
Thirty years ago this summer, 60,000 telephone workers walked off the job in New York and New England — and stayed out for seventeen weeks. Their struggle against NYNEX, a telecom giant, became one of labor’s few big strike victories, during a decade that began with the disastrous defeat of PATCO, the national air traffic controllers union.
Trump’s Assault on Labor
Donald Trump’s bait and switch with American workers is his greatest fraud of all. While uttering meaningless platitudes about fighting for workers, he is setting back the labor movement in ways that previous administrations could never do.
They Were Willing to Do Unpleasant Things to Unpleasant People
In the years after the defeat of Nazism, Britain's fascist movement alarmingly began to rebuild. But a group of young British Jews sprung into action to beat the fascists off the streets.
In Colombia, Álvaro Uribe’s Immunity Is Finally Coming to an End
Colombia’s Supreme Court has placed former right-wing president Álvaro Uribe under house arrest on charges of manipulating witness testimony. Whatever happens to Uribe next, this will be a watershed moment for Colombian politics.
When Germany’s Social Democrats Made a Revolution by Half
The November Revolution of 1918 replaced Germany’s monarchist regime with a parliamentary system. But its Social Democratic leaders made a pact with the old ruling class to repress the left-wing radicals who wanted to go further, crippling the new Weimar Republic from the start.
The Radicalism of Thaddeus Stevens
The Civil War and Reconstruction–era Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most of his contemporaries that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights — first the right of some human beings to own others, but also beyond it.
Colombia’s Mercenary Industry is Behind the Haitian Coup
Almost every assassin involved in the murder of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was Colombian. That’s no coincidence: if you want mercenaries for hire on the cheap, often trained by the US military, you can find them in spades in Colombia.
How FDR’s Original Green New Deal Challenged Jim Crow
The Civilian Conservation Corps, FDR’s original Green New Deal, cared for the environment and gave jobs to the unemployed. And though its record on racial equality was imperfect, it helped undermine key parts of Jim Crow.
Joe Biden Never Wanted a Roosevelt-Style Presidency
When Joe Biden was inaugurated a year ago, many expected his presidency to emulate the reforming ambition of FDR’s New Deal. But that ignores what made the New Deal possible: a climate of militant agitation and a populist president willing to align himself with it.