history
On becoming police and prison abolitionists: But what about the murderers?
February 25, 2022While a reader may find certain aspects of her argument worthy of debate, the fundamental value of Purnell’s book and intellectual approach is one of openness.
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What is the Minsk Agreement, and what’s its role in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?
February 23, 2022Successive Ukrainian governments have refused to implement a 2015 accord aimed at ending the fighting and the oppression of the Russian-speaking residents of the Donbass region.
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Juneteenth and the power of Black History
February 23, 2022Black History has the power to uncover the truth and expose the lies about the key contributions Black people have made to winning democratic rights for all, starting with Juneteenth.
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Rescuing the lost history of anti-colonial fighter and Communist W. Alphaeus Hunton
February 16, 2022Hunton, a leading figure in the struggle for African-American equality and against colonialism, was a well-known figure from the 1930s through the 1950s. The silencing of Black communist history, however, has left his life unexamined by...
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Georg Weerth, first poet of the German working class, on his bicentennial
February 16, 2022“Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet...” So wrote Frederick Engels in 1883 on his friend Georg Weerth, who came into the world 200 years ago.
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