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The North American British colonies and then the United States carried out genocidal suppression of the Native Americans, and similar suppressions of native peoples occurred in other settler-colonial countries.
It has become more widely known in recent years that bourgeois democracy in the (...)
”AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AT all levels, including in California, has historically criminalized African Americans for the purposes of social control, and to maintain an economy based on exploited Black labor.
“This criminalization is an enduring badge of slavery and has contributed to the (...)
It’s easy to chalk up the Watergate scandal to Richard Nixon’s singular paranoia. But his criminal actions are better understood as a reaction to the social upheavals of the day and a feverish attempt to destroy the Left.
Review of Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff (Simon & (...)
Review of John Woodford, Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927. By Jeffrey B. Perry. Columbia University Press, 2021, 768 pages plus notes and index.
One hundred years hence, what change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade.… Oppression and war will be heard of (...)
“I do not need this court, these prosecutors, or a piece of paper to tell me I am innocent,” said Muhammad Aziz, who spent two decades in prison for the 1965 murder of revolutionary Black rights leader Malcolm X.
Incredibly, a federal judge in Manhattan, New York, exonerated Aziz and fellow (...)
For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we feature an excerpt from Chapter One of A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn describes why he tells the story of Columbus’s arrival “from the viewpoint of the Arawaks” and “the inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in (...)
On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Gilbert Achcar explores the consequences of attempted US expansionism in the ‘Greater Middle East’
Twenty years ago, nineteen men, filled with hatred of the United States and faith in the promise of paradise, blew (...)
The late defence secretary’s micromanagement style – arrogant, bullying and ignorant – helped ensure the disastrous outcome
Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense under George W Bush, who died on 30 June at the age of 88, enjoyed one all-important attribute, which was to appear larger than he (...)
Analysis: reluctance to take heed of warnings that did not fit in with his worldview continues to burden the US government two decades on.
Donald Rumsfeld’s name will forever be associated with the biggest military fiasco in US history, the 2003 invasion of Iraq in pursuit of non-existent (...)
Huey Newton’s shifting political analysis illuminates both the limits and the ongoing relevance of the radicalism of the Black Panther era.
In August 1970, Roy Wilkins, the sexagenarian leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), used his syndicated column (...)
One hundred years ago, a white mob attacked the black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma and in two days killed hundreds of people, burned to the ground every building, and left ten thousand homeless.
The event began when Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old who shined shoes for a living was (...)
Family members of revolutionary Black leader Malcolm X have revealed a letter written by a former undercover New York police officer, Raymond A Wood, that they say shows the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were behind Macolm’s assassination on February 21, (...)
The current mass upheaval has reached a scale not seen in this country since the 1960s. So it is timely that Haymarket Books has republished an account of one of the key revolts in that fabled decade – the 1964 Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California at Berkeley. Originally (...)
Donna Murch is an activist and author in New Jersey, where she is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther party in Oakland, California, which won the Phillis Wheatley Prize. She (...)
The fifty-first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that gave birth to the modern LGBT movement is currently being marked by the most significant rebellion against racism and police violence in more than half a century.
All of this is unfolding in a context where from the legalization of (...)
A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and ’40s.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s push to forcibly annex up to 30% of the occupied West Bank is exposing the violence inherent in imposing a Jewish ethno-state on an (...)
A new study finds that unions don’t just increase wages and benefits for workers on the job — union membership is also linked to diminished racist attitudes among white workers. If we want to defeat racism, building strong, democratic unions is essential.
In New Orleans in the years leading up (...)
Mainstream commentators in the US, both liberal and conservative, tend to portray the South as a region whose culture makes it a permanent bastion of reactionary, racist, and anti-labor politics. Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Race, Class and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (...)
An exclusive excerpt from A People’s History of Detroit.
Introduction by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin
In 1965, the correctional population in the U.S., including all those in jail or prison, or on probation or parole, was less than 800,000. At present, the number is around seven million. As a (...)
President Richard M. Nixon prided himself on the accuracy of his political prognostication. Nixon was never more prescient than fifty years ago this month, in a remark made to his secretary, just before delivering a White House address that announced a U.S. military invasion of Cambodia. “It’s (...)
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