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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
Is Trump mentally ill? And does it matter?
James Baldwin film “I Am Not Your Negro” will show Feb. 24 in NYC and SF
Feb. 24: Powerful documentary showcases Baldwin’s profound ideas in his own words.
Ursula K. Le Guin, ¡presente!
Tributes including by Mumia Abu-Jamal to a peerless writer of humanist, feminist sci-fi and fantasy who died on Jan. 22.
“The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It”
What this historic event can tell us about movement-building and political leadership.
Analyzing the Trump danger: Marxist social science versus psychology
Neurologist and FSP National Committee member Steven Strauss diagnoses the real problem.
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 »
When workers took power — Trotsky’s “Russian Revolution”
One hundred years later, Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution is still the most compelling narrative of that world-shaking event.
Book review: How England’s “waste people” became “white trash” in the US
White trash, redneck, clay eater, cracker. This is only a partial list of all the sneering names developed over hundreds of years to stigmatize poor white people in the United States. In her new book White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg traces the evolution of language, perception and public policy… Read more »
Secondhand Time: socialist hopes and Stalinist tragedies
“A time full of hope has been replaced by a time of fear. The era has turned around and headed back in time. The time we live in now is second-hand….”
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