by Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn/Love and Rage This list of five revolutionary women from the Mohawk Valley was written in celebration of International Working Women’s Day, a holiday that has very radical roots in the labor and socialist movements, and in the tumultuous textile strikes that swept across New York […]
by Wayne Price/Anarcho-Syndicalist Review In recent decades, there have been efforts to “rehabilitate” the U.S. Communist Party (CP) as an historical model for the Left. Anti-authoritarian socialists and anarchists find this troubling. While the CP did some good things it also did some very bad things. A brief […]
by Opal Tometi/ROAR Magazine In 1992, the world witnessed African American Rodney King being brutally beaten by Los Angeles policemen. In 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Black immigrant from Guinea, was shot 19 times by five New York City policemen outside his apartment. Sean Bell was shot to […]
by Matt Lester/Guest My political awareness is shaped by what happened to my Grandfather. Of course, there are other things. But it is high on the list. It filters my world-view. Growing up in Germany during the rise of the Nazis, fleeing to a Jewish community in Shanghai, […]
by Jesse Benn/Revolution News I’m all for the idea of a political revolution. I guess I’m just not sure what that has to do with running a presidential campaign within our existing electoral system. But let me give Bernie Sanders and his supporters some credit and go with […]