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, by LA BOTZ Dan
The coincidence of the “Justice for Trayvon” protests all over the country and the 50th anniversary of the March of Washington for Jobs and Freedom presents the African American people and all of those concerned with social justice a real opportunity to revive the black freedom and equality (…)
, by MIAH Malik
TWO IMPORTANT FIILMS have brought the issues of slavery, emancipation and equality to the public’s attention as many Americans look back at our history. Both, along with a television miniseries, provide insight to the role of slavery in the U.S. economy, the emancipation, and how those events (…)
, by GOUREVITCH Alex
Generations of workers critiqued wage-labor in the name of republican liberty.
In a recent interview, historian Quentin Skinner had the following to say about Karl Marx and the republican theory of liberty. The republican or “neo-Roman” theory says that we are unfree when we are subject to (…)
, by WALD Alan
The books under review—by Cheryl Higashida, Dayo F. Gore and Erik S. McDuffie—all discuss the work of Black women writers and activists from the Old Left. Alan Wald traces common themes that to show how these activist women articulated the dynamics of race, class and gender as “triple (…)
, by OAKES James
A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
On November 6, 1860, the six-year-old Republican Party elected its first president. During the tense crisis months that followed — the “secession winter” of 1860–61 — practically all observers (…)
, by MORRISON Derrick
An Unfinished Revolution. Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. By Robin Blackburn. Verso Press, 272 pages, published in 2011 in paperback, $19.95.
“Marx did not support the North because he believed that its victory would directly lead to socialism. Rather, he saw in South and North two species of (…)
, by LEVINE Bruce
Review of: Charles Post, The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877. 298 + xvii pages, including bibliography and index. Hardcover, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Short-listed for the 2011 Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. (…)
Review: American Uprising. The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt. By Daniel Rasmussen. Harper, 2010, 276 pages, $27 hardcover.
“Destrehan did not mention the spiked iron collars, cowhide whips, and face masks that he and the other planters used to encourage the slaves’ ‘natural (…)
, by RIDDELL John
The influence of the Communist International was decisive in the early 1920s in winning a generation of black revolutionaries to Marxism. On this the historians agree. But what did this influence consist of, and how was it exerted?
This question was posed by a comment posted to this website (…)
, by BENSON Herman
Review: The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor. By: Steve Early. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2010, 322 pp, $17.
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The “civil wars” that Steve Early mentions in his new book are not about the class war between labor and capital, nor any war between a conservative right and a (…)
, by RANDOLF Sherie M.
SEVERAL DECADES AFTER the 1960s political upheavals, very few people recognize the name of the Black feminist lawyer and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000). However, during the late 1960s and 1970s Kennedy was the country’s most well-known Black feminist. When reporting on the emergence (…)
, par FRASER Steve
• Pivotal Decade : How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the 1970s by Judith Stein Yale, 367 pp, £25.00, May 2010, ISBN 978 0 300 11818 6
• Stayin’ Alive : The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson Cowie New Press, 464 pp, £19.99, September 2010, ISBN 978 1 (…)
, par LA BOTZ Dan
In 1995-1998, unions in Ontario embarked on a series of eleven one-day citywide strikes against the policies of the Conservative provincial government. This article details the labor-community coalitions they put together ; the cross-picketing they did of each other’s workplaces ; and a deal of (…)
, by DAVIDSON Neil
The discussion of the American Civil War as a bourgeois revolution, reopened by John Ashworth’s recent work, needs to be based on a more explicit conceptualisation of what the category does, and does not, involve. This essay offers one such conceptualisation. It then deals with two key issues (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The collapse of the financial sector of the United States detonated the current global economic crisis, and its auto industry was soon crumpling as well. Yet, though it all began here, American labor unions and workers have been slow to respond and their response has been weak. Millions of (…)
, by WALD Alan
BERTA LANGSTON (1922-2010), a founder and member of Solidarity, died of lung cancer at age 84 in Norwalk, Connecticut on June 23. Born Berta Green on the Lower East Side of New York City, she was one of four sisters. She joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1940s and throughout (…)
, by WEBB Susan
On July 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium, Twittered, “Wondering how many who watched fireworks on July 4 did so because it’s fun, forgetting that it commemorates exploding bombs during warfare.”
That same day, Robert S. McNamara, the former defense secretary, died at 93. (…)
, by HONEY Michael, WILLIAMS Charles
The Memphis sanitation strike began on February 12, 1968 following the death on February 1 of two sanitation workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, who were crushed by a defective garbage compactor. Martin Luther King, Jr., first traveled to Memphis to support the strike on March 18, invited by (…)
, by ONASCH Bill
Peter Camejo, one of the most prominent left leaders to emerge from the Sixties radicalization in the USA, lost a second bout with lymphoma Saturday, September 13. He was 68.
Camejo was born in to a wealthy Venezuelan family. His mother, Elvia, who had family and friend ties in the USA, and (…)
, by QUINN Patrick M.
BILL BANTA, A member of the Chicago branch and founding member of Solidarity, died of pancreatic cancer in a Chicago hospice on August 20th. He was 67. Bill was a revolutionary socialist his entire adult life. Born on February 6, 1941 in Portland, Indiana, he joined the Young People’s Socialist (…)
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