history
Writing at a time of plague: Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarca, Chaucer
August 14, 2020The Black Plague was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, resulting in the deaths of between 75-125 million people.
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No Heroes
August 13, 2020"There were no heroes in Hiroshima, only shadows."
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‘Let Them Tremble’: So much of this history reads like right now
August 12, 2020Through the lives of six Communists, Tony Pecinovsky shows the CPUSA playing a leading, if often behind the scenes role in every main arena of mass struggle of the 20th century's second half.
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Radical historian challenges traditional Marxist view of ‘so-called’ American Revolution
August 11, 2020Marxists ranging from Lenin to Ho Chi Minh to CPUSA historian Herbert Aptheker have viewed the American Revolution as a bourgeois-democratic revolution that advanced the cause of liberty, as incomplete and flawed as it was. Gerald Horne says no.
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Virtual march on Livermore Lab caps Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries
August 10, 2020The U.S. lab is devoting nearly 90% of its over-$2 billion budget for 2020-21 to nuclear weapons; only 2% will go to civilian science.
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