Feb. 24: Powerful documentary showcases Baldwin’s profound ideas in his own words.
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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 »
Pay equity: back-to-back wins for women athletes
Ice hockey’s U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) beat their governing body, USA Hockey, in March and took women’s fight for living wages a huge step forward. Long notoriously underpaid, hockey’s women players were expected to keep winning world medals while working for about $1,000 per month, for 6 months, only in Olympic years, and on… 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.
Taking a Stand
Black athletes revive political protest in the sports world.
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“A time full of hope has been replaced by a time of fear.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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