A new documentary on Raisin in the Sun author Lorraine Hansberry, 1960s-era Black radical and artist.
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Raoul Peck: ‘I’m Not in the Movie Business to Make Films’
Raoul Peck, creator of the James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro, says he made the just released Young Karl Marx for today’s generation of youth.
Democracy and Revolution by George Novack
A Marxist thinker on why capitalism is hard-wired to be less and less democratic
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 »
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 »
