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Return of the Red Scare
Trump & Co. are preaching against socialism. They want another Red Scare? OK! Time for all good lefties to get fearsome.
Seattle General Strike, 1919: “Nothing moved but the tide”
This salute to a proud general strike in the Pacific Northwest 100 years ago is chock full of lessons for unionists today.
Murder Incorporated: myths of US origin story exposed
Co-authored by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, this unique book exposes the early history of the United States that we were never taught in school.
What lessons for a new generation?
Reflections and questions raised at the Seattle Black Panthers’ 50th anniversary conference.
Letters to the editor – February 2018
Readers respond to … The meeting of the Committee for International Revolutionary Regroupment; anti-Nazi fightback; tribute to Frank Little; and more.
“The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It”
What this historic event can tell us about movement-building and political leadership.
Russia 1917: The spark that lit a world revolution
Excerpts from two speeches that celebrate what workers and peasants won by making the Russian Revolution and that draw valuable lessons for radicals today.
On the eve of revolution: Trotsky in New York City, 1917
One hundred years ago Russian insurrectionist Leon Trotsky landed in New York with his wife and two sons. A political refugee for over a decade, Trotsky had been forced out of Germany, France, Switzerland and Spain. The Allied powers in World War I already raging in Europe were afraid Trotsky’s tireless opposition to the war… Read more »
Engels on matriarchy: modern science agrees
Since retiring as FSP National Secretary, I’ve been auditing classes at nearby University of Washington in order to learn what science has uncovered in the half-century since my student days. I especially want to satisfy an itch to understand the origins of human behaviors. Last quarter, in a class on evolutionary psychology, I was astounded… Read more »