Our history
Blacks faced some of the most vicious aspects of the backlash against working-class militancy after the First World War.
May 25, 2012 : Brian Ward The U.S. government has allowed a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate the conditions of Native Americans.
May 23, 2012 The posthumous recognition for C. Arthur Lyman is an insult to the Minneapolis Teamsters who struggled for their rights.
May 22, 2012 : Christina Bergmark In the face of systematic racism, the "back to Africa" ideas of Marcus Garvey struck a chord in early 20th century America.
May 18, 2012 : Lance Selfa Booker T. Washington's "self-help" philosophy argued against political action and for an accommodation with racism.
May 11, 2012 : Christina Bergmark Racism at home has always been tied to racism abroad--so the fight against both forms of bigotry must be linked.
May 4, 2012 : Alan Maass International Workers' Day has its origins in the U.S.--in the 19th-century struggle for the eight-hour day.
May 1, 2012 : Nancy MacLean The Populist struggle brought together Blacks with poor whites in a challenge against the Southern elite.
April 27, 2012 : Nancy MacLean Contrary to the racist myths that live on today, Reconstruction was one of the greatest experiments in democracy the U.S. has ever seen.
April 20, 2012 : Jason Netek The U.S. South is well known for being a bastion of conservatism--but it has an often overlooked history of radicalism.
April 19, 2012 : Lance Selfa and Alan Maass We're told that Abraham Lincoln "freed the slaves," but it's important to remember what slaves did to free themselves.
April 13, 2012 : Marlene Martin The murder of Trayvon Martin has obvious parallels with the lynching of Emmett Till by racists in 1950s Mississippi.
April 3, 2012 : Deborah Roberts From the beginning of European settlement in the Americas, slavery played an essential role in capitalism's development.
March 30, 2012 : Kathy Stewart Slavery was abolished in the 1860s, but its legacy of racism persists to this day because it is useful to the ruling class.
March 23, 2012 : Mark Clements We need a struggle against discrimination today like the Montgomery bus boycott that defeated segregation in the 1950s.
March 14, 2012 : Martin Luther King Jr. A speech King gave three weeks before he was shot focused on issues of racism, poverty and war that are still with us today.
March 14, 2012 : Sharon Smith The first International Women's Day was celebrated on the heels of a militant struggle of New York City garment workers.
March 9, 2012 : Elizabeth Schulte The roots of May Day lie in a mass working-class struggle for the eight-hour day--something that's been forgotten even by some on the left.
March 6, 2012 : Bill Hampton In a 1977 interview, Fred Hampton's brother describes the government's campaign against the slain Black Panther leader.
March 2, 2012 : Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In the early 1960s, a mass movement of Black parents and school-aged children in Northern cities demanded integrated and equal education.
February 22, 2012 : Dan Georgakas Newspapers played a vital role in organizing the League of Revolutionary Black Workers during the upsurge of the 1960s and '70s.
February 17, 2012 : Brian Ward Cheyenne leaders Dull Knife and Little Wolf led a determined and prolonged resistance to the U.S. government's soldiers.
February 13, 2012 : Marlene Martin The story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is not just about its leaders, but a mass movement that depended on tens of thousands of people.
February 9, 2012 In honor of Black History Month, I'd like to briefly highlight two Black socialists, Lucy Parsons and A. Phillip Randolph.
February 7, 2012 The simplest explanation of the available evidence is that there was a historical Jesus whose life was the basis for the later myths.
February 7, 2012
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