Tag: History
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Queer liberation and socialism
In the first of a series of articles for Pride Month, Dana Cloud writes about the history of queer liberation struggle in the United States, its socialist origins, and lessons for today’s queer politics.
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A new era of labor revolt (1966)
In the mid-1960s, in the midst of Black urban revolt and radicalization on campuses, the U.S. working class was supposedly bought off and inactive. Worker-revolutionary Stan Weirdisagreed. In this 1966 speech, he detailed the broad stirrings of a rank and file rebellion—a revolt with roots in unbearable workplace conditions and a deep feeling that “something’s…
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It’s their democracy, not ours, but we must defend it
Bourgeois democracy isn’t full democracy, but British socialist David Renton argues that socialists should not be indifferent when the ruling class threatens to shed its democratic skin.
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In memory of Neal Adams
Hank Kennedy celebrates Neal Adams’ political and artistic contributions to the world of comic books in this obituary.
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Reflections on building the third camp
Since the 1960s, Cuban-born Samuel Farber has been an activist and writer with a third camp, anti-capitalist, anti-Stalinist perspective. He talked to Kent Worcester about his political development, his experiences—and his reflections on people, movements, and organizations—from his earliest years to today.
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Let the record show—a review
Sherry Wolf reviews this pathbreaking history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) founded to fight the AIDS/HIV crisis in New York in the late 1980s
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From militant to Washington insider
Tim Goulet discusses the life and death of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.
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Seattle educators endorse BDS
Seattle Education Association member Darrin Hoop interviews six other members of the union who organized to pass a resolution in solidarity with Palestine.
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A history of revolutionary class struggle
Steve Leigh reviews the new book The Fight for Workers’ Power by authors Mick Armstrong and Tom Bramble.
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New Jersey Communists in the 1920s
Tim Goulet reviews The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike by Jacob Zumoff