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2010 elections continue 1960s battles

October 26, 2010 By Sam Webb

This election and the rage connected to it (racist and anti-immigrant especially) are traceable to the 1960s and the right-wing class warfare that followed.

“The Backlash”: eye-opening field trip to the far right

October 26, 2010 By LaBarre Blackman

"The Backlash" takes us on a trip to the strip-malls, mountain hollows and exurban living rooms where reactionary populism takes root and grows.

Labor’s history has missing pages

August 10, 2010

I asked a number of retired union activists to help clarify a big mystery raised by the 2003 book, "Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions."

See “Agora”!

August 3, 2010 By Barbara Russum

The political debates, the religious oratory, the provocations and intrigue in this movie are as modern as anything in today's news - only the weapons are old.

FDR and the New Deal for Beginners

July 20, 2010 By John Pietaro

This collaboration between a progressive historian and an underground comic artist brings the New Deal's politics and radicalism to life in a relevant time.