Canada’s Victims of Communism monument included proposed honorees from the Waffen-SS, the Ustaša, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The charity that supplied the names is still helping shape the memorial’s next phase.
This small town was envisioned as a socialist paradise. Now it’s Trump country.
Bertolt Brecht predicted it in 1942: American fascism would be democratic in the American fashion. He was right. That's precisely what makes it so hard to stop.
The most pressing menace from artificial intelligence is not a sci-fi scenario where machines take over from human beings. It’s the use of AI as a tool to carry out atrocities that are 100% man-made — something we can see playing out right now in Gaza.
Reactionary forces like AIPAC who want more death and misery in Gaza are going up against Rep. Cori Bush. Her reelection is a priority for progressive forces everywhere.
Conservatives say birth rates are falling because of a lack of old-fashioned respect for motherhood. Rather than enshrining women’s supposedly natural and essential role as mothers, we should place children at the heart of a politics that cares for everyone.
During the Great Depression, a mass movement of the elderly helped pressure FDR to enact Social Security. As seniors increasingly struggle with financial insecurity today, that movement could serve as a model for a campaign to fix the program’s shortcomings.
In the 20th century, American Communist Party members were portrayed as the Red Menace, an enemy within. In reality, they were ordinary people with extraordinarily complex intellectual, political, social, and romantic lives that deserve to be chronicled.
After 12 months, there’s no end in sight to Israel’s relentless onslaught against Gaza, now extended to Lebanon. Historian Rashid Khalidi explains how Israel and the US are working together to destroy all constraints on violence against civilians.
How bad could a second Donald Trump term get? That depends on how serious he is about replacing the career bureaucrats who staff the security state with MAGA loyalists ready to carry out his most demented policies.
Liberals say that socialists who don’t support Joe Biden are “like the German Communists who refused to fight Hitler.” The analogy doesn’t hold up — and it’s also historically illiterate.
Across the US, students organizing against Israel’s assault on Gaza have made essential use of power research, uncovering financial ties between the Pentagon and campus labs and mapping out connections between university trustees and the war machine.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey makes for fantastic moviegoing. It also advances a fundamentally conservative view of society.
Rank-and-file autoworkers democratized their union, elected president Shawn Fain, and won a landmark strike. Now they will have to win local officer positions, dominated by the old guard, to hold bosses to their word and maintain a fighting union.
In 2002, the Pentagon staged a $250 million war game known as the “Millennium Challenge.” It was supposed to be a fixed fight — until a retired Marine lieutenant general, playing the role of a Middle Eastern country, brought the US military to its knees.
A slice of life from a country in crisis.
There are so many insane things happening at any given moment under Donald Trump that it can be easy to forget that this is the most spasmodic, scandal-plagued presidential administration the United States has ever seen.
Kamala Harris and her surrogates keep bragging about Dick Cheney’s endorsement. It’s deeply obscene: Dick Cheney is a depraved war criminal whose image should not be rehabilitated.
Donald Trump and his allies aren’t making a secret of it: if they win, they’re going to launch a campaign of repression to destroy the pro-Palestinian movement and the organized left.
The story of the Congressional Black Caucus reflects the class contradictions of black politics in the post–civil rights era.