Anti-American, anti-Jim Crow sentiment and against the white supremacist domination project were already present on the island well before the revolution….generating a revolt that was not only against foreign domination, but against a deeply racist domination that tried to impose the same ‘Jim Crow’ system on Cuba, trying to transform a society with racism into a racist society according to the model of white supremacy… | more…
By the time of the POWs release and repatriation in early 1973, the war between the walls of Hoa Lo (the prison near Hanoi) was more than that between prisoners and their guards. The tensions between the officers and the enlisted men, universal in military organisations, had hardened into class lines… | more…
‘In Arabic, there’s this proverb: Somebody else’s troubles make your troubles look like nothing. I’ve always thought my whole life that losing my home is not a big deal. I’ve genuinely always thought: “We’re losing our home, but at least we’re not getting shot. At least we’re not getting our residency revoked.” And I think this most recent uprising has taught me that it actually matters that I stay in my home….’ | more…
An impressive array of spots in recent weeks, on topics ranging from the Rittenhouse trial and the legacy of Thanks-taking, ongoing Jazz greats of Horne’s hometown to Paul Robeson and the U.S.S.R., Haiti, and more… Gerald Horne weighs in. | more…
Seattle’s working class and its ‘intense localism’ as ‘unparalleled’ allowing these workers to form a ‘radical consensus’ with fluid political lines ‘left, right and center’ positioning the IWW, the Socialist, and the craft union’s Central Labor Council (CLC) leaders ‘on the same stage, in the same demonstrations, and on the same street corners’…. | more…
“When they try to get you to meet them halfway like. ‘well, U.S. imperialism is bad, but Venezuela is kind of bad too, or Cuba’s kind of bad too…no, we’re not going to meet you halfway.” | more…
Presentado por William Castillo, con Joe Emersberger, sobre su libro Amenaza Extraordinaria. El imperio estadounidense, Los Medios de Comunicación y los Veinte Años de Intentos de Golpe de Estado en Venezuela. | more…
On Thursday, November 18th, at 4 PM ET, in conversation with Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Democratic congressman who led the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Michael Tigar spoke at the Institute for Policy Studies about his recent book “Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change.” | more…
When I was still in a 401(k)-like plan and approaching age sixty-five after thirty-seven years of university teaching, I took stock of my future retirement income. I wanted to know what it would look like in terms of achieving the 70 percent of pre-retirement income that retirement experts state is necessary to maintain one’s standard of living… | more…
“In short, the principle is that journalistic organizations will be paid in advance, and what they produce primarily with public monies will be instantly put in the public domain and made available to all for free. The best check on abuses will be popular voting to determine the recipients. The process will be overseen by the U.S. Postal Service, with elections taking place online and with print ballots available at or through the Postal Service. This is a renewal of the Postal Service’s historic mission of sustaining independent and competitive journalism…” | more…
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked a bizarre question at President Joe Biden’s November 3 press briefing. The president seemed to misunderstand the question, which referred to potential settlements of a lawsuit stemming from the Trump administration’s notorious 2017–18 family separation policy. Biden bungled his response, apparently calling reports about the settlement “garbage.” Not surprisingly, the media ran with the story of Biden’s blunder. Doocy’s question, on the other hand, was mostly ignored or played down…. | more…
It is well-established that African-Americans have sought allies abroad as a way to weaken opposition at home. Often, scholars have tackled this important topic as it manifested during the Cold War. The work at hand emulates previous scholarship in detailing this trend during the antebellum and early postbellum era… | more…
“Marx, Dead and Alive” packs an extraordinary amount into its 184 pages, both historical detail and in contemporizing Marx with multifarious global contexts and examples…. it would make an excellent introduction for someone just starting to grasp Marx and wanting clear definitions of alienation, capital, class, commodity fetishism, value and wage labour – amongst other key concepts…. | more…
