Making Freedom a Fact
Economic justice has always been at the core of black freedom struggles in the US.
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Ferguson’s Inheritance
The question is never if resistance will appear, but when. For this generation, Ferguson answered that question.
The Other March on Washington
As Nazism was challenged abroad, A. Philip Randolph led an uncompromising campaign for democracy at home.
Why Liberals Separate Race from Class
The tendency to divorce racial disparities from economic inequality has a long liberal lineage.
All of Kissinger’s Friends
Last night's Democratic debate showed how thoroughly liberals have renounced the anti-interventionist tradition.
Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?
A historian debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.
This Didn’t Have to Happen
Many white workers aren't voting for Democrats this November. And we can't just blame racism.
Everybody Hates Cornel West
How Cornel West went from liberal media darling to pariah.
Sara Nelson: “Solidarity Is a Force Stronger Than Gravity”
This month, Association of Flight Attendants union president Sara Nelson addressed over 1,000 delegates at the Democratic Socialists of America convention. Here's what she had to say about the labor movement's power to defeat bigotry, the proud legacy of democratic socialists, and why solidarity is the "greatest force for good in human history."
From Revitalization to Dispossession
On the twentieth anniversary of New Labor Forum, Steve Fraser reflects on organized labor’s hopes and disappointments over the last two decades.
Exporting Deportation
Even before Trump, the US had begun outsourcing key elements of immigration enforcement to Mexico.
Half the Way with Mao Zedong
How Students for a Democratic Society went from building a mass movement to embracing the politics of self-destruction.
A Religion of Unity
For black meatpacking workers, multiracial class politics was the path to economic and social advancement.
Democratic Socialists Want to Fight for Minority Rights, Not Suppress Them
Defenders of capitalism say that socialism will squelch minority rights. But the only minority groups we seek to unseat are those who trample the rights of others.
Democratic Socialism Is About Democracy
At the core of democratic socialism is a simple idea: democracy is good, and it should be expanded.
Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Fifty Years Later
On the fiftieth anniversary of the “strike that changed New York,” the Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers strikes have much to teach us about building a strong anti-racist labor movement made up of both workers and community members.
The First March on Washington
A. Philip Randolph called for a March on Washington to force President Roosevelt to abolish Jim Crow in the war effort, and shaped the trajectory of the postwar left.
A Hundred Years of Solidarity
If we want to fight capitalism, the US left has to figure out how to confront US empire. Generations of internationalist struggles in Latin America can help us do just that.
What Black Life Actually Looks Like
For too long, the Left has organized based on caricatures of black political life. If it wants to win, it needs to start recognizing the role of class in black America.
How the Other Half Goes to College
Rich parents bribing their kids' way into elite schools shows how college admissions is anything but a meritocracy. But the flipside is how poor and working-class kids face barrier after barrier to attending higher education at all, as this advisor to first-generation college students explains.