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Lincoln and Marx
The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.
by
Robin Blackburn
via
Jacobin
on
August 28, 2012
When Blue-Collar Pride Became Identity Politics
Remembering how the white working class got left out of the New Left, and why we're all paying for it today.
by
Jefferson Cowie
,
Joan Walsh
via
Salon
on
September 6, 2010
Don’t Despair About the Supreme Court
In 2005, Howard Zinn explained why it was naive to depend on the Court to defend the rights of marginalized Americans.
by
Howard Zinn
via
The Progressive
on
October 21, 2005
Shawn Fain Is Channeling the Best of the UAW’s Past
The ongoing UAW strike is reminiscent of early UAW leader Walter Reuther — before the union and Reuther himself downsized their ambitions.
by
Barry Eidlin
via
Jacobin
on
October 16, 1923
John Cassidy on Capitalism and Its Critics
The author on capitalism’s critics, why everyone is so unhappy with the system, and what may come next.
by
John Cassidy
,
James Surowiecki
via
The Yale Review
on
May 27, 2025
The Rebellions of Murray Kempton
One of his generation’s most prolific journalists, Kempton never turned a blind eye to the inequalities all around him.
by
Vivian Gornick
via
The Nation
on
April 8, 2025
Peaceable Revolutions
Linda Gordon argues that social movements are vital partnerships that, by challenging the status quo, are indispensable to the health of the nation.
by
Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
on
March 20, 2025
Home Is Where the Unpaid Labor Is
A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.
by
Hannah Rosefield
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The New Republic
on
March 19, 2025
In 1930s NYC, Proportional Representation Boosted the Left
NYC history suggests that the Left might profitably revive proportional representation as a tool to build its electoral strength.
by
Trevor Goodwin
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Jacobin
on
January 26, 2025
The New Trumpian Bargain
Trump's second term echoes 19th-century policies: tariffs and immigration limits protect workers, while deregulation risks widening inequality.
by
Sohrab Ahmari
via
New Statesman
on
November 12, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Midwest Populism
When the Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party merged into the Democratic machine, its populist energies were chewed up and spat out.
by
Patrick Greeley
via
Jacobin
on
November 11, 2024
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Kamala Harris Is Borrowing From the Feminist Playbook
Harris is taking a page from the playbook that has long helped women advance the quest for equality.
by
Melissa Blair
via
Made By History
on
September 26, 2024
The Golden Age of Wisconsin Socialism
At its peak in the 1920s and early ’30s, the Socialist Party in Wisconsin used confrontational tactics and nonsocialists alliances to make legislative advances.
by
Joshua Kluever
via
Jacobin
on
September 12, 2024
Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.
by
Harold Meyerson
via
The American Prospect
on
August 8, 2024
Chiquita Must Pay for Its Crimes in Latin America
70 years since President Árbenz was ousted for standing up to Chiquita, the firm might finally be held to account for its ties to a far-right paramilitary group in Colombia.
by
Klas Lundström
via
Jacobin
on
July 10, 2024
Is the United States Too Devoted to the Constitution?
A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.
by
John Fabian Witt
via
The New Republic
on
June 24, 2024
How Activists Across the Pacific Northwest Planned the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
Looking back on the environmentalist and anti-globalization movements of the 1990s.
by
D. W. Gibson
via
Literary Hub
on
June 21, 2024
Extravagances of Neoliberalism
On how the fringe ideas of a set of American neoliberals became a new and pervasive way of life.
by
Melinda Cooper
,
Benjamin Kunkel
via
The Baffler
on
May 13, 2024
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The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment
State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago.
by
Betsy Wood
via
Made By History
on
May 13, 2024
Reviving the Language of Empire
On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.
by
Aziz Rana
,
Nora Caplan-Bricker
via
Jewish Currents
on
May 9, 2024
Work Sucks. What Could Salvage It?
New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.
by
Erik Baker
via
The New Yorker
on
May 1, 2024
The Obamas’ “Rustin”: Fun Tricks You Can Do on the Past
The project of “reclamation and celebration” proceeds from an impulse to rediscover black Greats who by force of their own will make “change.”
by
Adolph Reed, Jr.
via
Nonsite
on
December 16, 2023
Whiggism Is Still Wrong
Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to "make hard work cool again." He isn’t the first.
by
Sohrab Ahmari
via
The American Conservative
on
November 21, 2023
How Hollywood’s Black Friday Strike Changed Labor Across America
A 1945 union vs. studios battle set off broad right-wing hysteria—its lessons should resonate today.
by
Gerald Horne
,
Anthony Ballas
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
November 9, 2023
Eclipsed in His Era, Bayard Rustin Gets to Shine in Ours
The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?
by
Adam Gopnik
via
The New Yorker
on
November 6, 2023
Jews and Joe
From European streets to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Jews have been deeply involved in the history of coffee and the café scene.
by
Orge Castellano
via
Tablet
on
August 29, 2023
Strike Waves Across the US Seem Big, but the Number of People on Strike Remains Historically Low
Many of the reasons for strikes now mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.
by
Judith Stepan-Norris
,
Jasmine Kerrissey
via
The Conversation
on
August 24, 2023
Untangling the 19th Century Roots of Mass Incarceration
Popular accounts often trace the origins of forced penal labor to the post-Civil War South. But a vast system of forced penal labor existed in the antebellum North.
by
Rebecca McLennan
via
LPE Project
on
May 16, 2023
The Banana King Who (Tried to) Put People Over Profits
1970s United Fruit CEO Eli Black got caught between the warring ideals of ‘social responsibility’ and shareholder gains.
by
Matt Garcia
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
April 26, 2023
How Government Helped Create the “Traditional” Family
Since the mid-nineteenth century, many labor regulations in the US have been crafted with the express purpose of strengthening the male-breadwinner family.
by
Livia Gershon
,
Arianne Renan Barzilay
via
JSTOR Daily
on
April 12, 2023
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