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As he watched the St Patrick’s day parade unfold in Springfield, Kent Brockman of The Simpsons posed an important question: “All this drinking, violence, destruction of property — are these the things we think of...

Review of The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley (Allen Lane, 2025) Even if you love South East London, it is difficult to like the Old Kent...

Review of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc (University of California Press, 2025). Eric Blanc’s argument in We Are the Union is that only “worker-to-worker”...

The world has radically changed over the past four-plus decades. Unions haven’t. Or at least they haven’t changed nearly enough to match what they’re up against. In this context, unionizing Amazon — iconic in status...

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz was an unusually inventive Marxist theoretician of the multiethnic imperial context in which he operated. Serving the Polish national cause, he blended socialism with sociology and Marxism with democratic nationalism. Instead of simply...

“It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and early ’50s. Getting her political start with the Scottsboro Boys case in...

Coline Grando I must say that the working conditions at the Liberated Broom weren’t the norm in the 1970s either. But clearly, the pace of work was not the same and it was much more...

The displacement caused by the recent Los Angeles–area fires has renewed attention on price gouging in rental housing. Some landlords were accused of increasing their rents by more than 300 percent — spikes that appeared...

The Irish Northern Aid Committee — Noraid, as it was generally known — was accused of involvement in various activities to support the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Its alleged offences included purchasing M-60 rifles, paying...

Why was the winner of the world’s most prestigious prize for board game makers banned immediately after the ceremony by the very organization that awarded him? Palestine. When Daybreak won the Spiel des Jahres (SdJ,...

In the last few months, the phenomenon of fake news has come to Greenland. Ads posted on Facebook, Greenland’s main social network, variously suggested that two prominent politicians had either been sued by the Bank...

In a 1991 essay titled “Winning the Culture War: The American Cause,” radical conservative thinker Sam Francis summoned up the ghost of the late Italian communist Antonio Gramsci in order to offer the American far...