Our history
: 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 : Elizabeth Schulte The struggle of tens of thousands of textile workers in Lawrence, Mass., 100 years ago was one of the fiercest battles in U.S. labor history.
January 11, 2012 : Brian Ward The slaughter of hundreds of Lakota women, children and men 121 years ago marked the end of the "Indian Wars."
January 10, 2012 : Jason Netek The Tea Party's appropriation of the rhetoric and imagery of the American Revolution is especially infuriating.
December 14, 2011 : Phil Gasper How close are the views of right-wing politicians who proclaim their Christian beliefs to the historical Jesus who opposed kings and oppressors?
December 14, 2011 : Paul LeBlanc It is a great source of strength to draw from our revolutionary traditions as we engage in present-day struggles for radical change.
December 12, 2011 : Alessandro Tinonga The last general strike to take place in the U.S. was in none other than Oakland--the heart of the call for a ports shutdown.
December 12, 2011 John Carlos, whose Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics helped define a generation, spoke to an electrified crowd at Laney College.
December 5, 2011 : Eric Ruder In 1932, First World War veterans--known as the Bonus Army--traveled to Washington, D.C., to demand what was owed them.
November 11, 2011 In some Occupy encampments, the question has been raised whether we should use the term "occupy" at all.
November 7, 2011 : Alan Maass The Black Power movement was a magnificent high point of African American resistance--one that inspired and shaped radicals for years to come.
October 25, 2011 : Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The postal workers' wildcat strike of 1970 had its roots in the civil rights and Black Power movements of the time.
October 20, 2011 : Sharon Smith Today's Occupy movement stands in a long tradition of struggles that have depended on the determination of activists that "we shall not be moved."
October 18, 2011 : Tara Lee A leader of the postal workers' wildcat strike of 1970 describes what happened in this pivotal battle for public-sector workers.
October 18, 2011 The history of Native Americans show us why we need a movement among all oppressed people against capitalism.
October 6, 2011 : Keith Rosenthal During her remarkable life, labor radical Lucy Parsons led workers and the oppressed in struggle and wrote widely on vital questions for the left.
September 22, 2011 Reds at the Blackboard tells the story of a left-wing union for teachers that pioneered a strategy of social movement unionism.
September 13, 2011 : Lee Wengraf September 9 marks the 40th anniversary of the most important prison uprising in U.S. history--the rebellion at Attica in upstate New York.
September 9, 2011 : Lee Sustar The strike wave of the late 1960s coincided with the most militant phase of the Black Power revolt.
September 2, 2011 : Sharon Smith The 1960s movements against the war and for Black Power led to the radicalization of a significant layer of industrial workers.
August 26, 2011 : Bill Roberts Rank-and-file pressure produced numerous surprises for labor bosses as well as corporate heads during the 1950s.
August 19, 2011 : Geoff Bailey Seventy-five years ago, the workers of Spain led a heroic fight against fascism--and their rebellion gave the world a glimpse of workers' power.
August 18, 2011 : Christine Darosa More than 400 years ago, the Pueblo nations of the Southwest expelled their colonizers and returned to self-rule.
August 17, 2011
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