The general strike was “the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,” wrote the historian and economist G. D. H. Cole. One hundred years ago on May 4, 1926, a million British workers walked...
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In December 1939, just a few months after the outbreak of World War II, the National Geographic reporter E. John Long caught a flight to Puerto Rico. As the Clipper seaplane buzzed over the island’s...
Home may be perilous and the destination out of reachBut there are no paths without an end, do not grieve— HafizMy cousin’s message arrived on January 21 at 8:39 p.m. After the January massacres in...
“American fascism would . . . be correspondingly democratic in the American fashion.”— Bertolt Brecht, JournalsAt the end of last year, Donald Trump deployed more than two thousand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to...
Home may be perilous and the destination out of reachBut there are no paths without an end, do not grieve— HafizMy cousin’s message arrived on January 21 at 8:39 p.m. After the January massacres in...
In 1948, the radical sociologist C. Wright Mills published a book called The New Men of Power, which examined the careers of postwar labor leaders who emerged from industrial union struggles in the 1930s. At...
Venezuela’s sweeping new mining law, passed on April 9, is the latest in a series of domestic “reforms” purportedly directed at rebuilding the country’s energy and mining sectors. This follows years of debilitating US sanctions and disinvestment,...
Concerned citizens crowding into a rec center to protest a proposed data center in El Paso, Texas. Suburban homeowners shouting down pro-data-center politicians in Festus, Missouri. Teenagers and their parents swamping a local zoning meeting...
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks marked a paradigm shift in US politics. Following the unprecedented horror and the worst intelligence failure in US history, the United States embarked on the “war on terror:” a...
Earlier this week, Tony Blair admonished the UN Security Council for dragging its heels in approving Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan under his “Board of Peace.” Blair trumpeted it as a “strategically coherent framework” that...
In precapitalist England, a person could gather wood from the forest for fuel and shelter, graze cattle on common pasture, or glean the fields after harvest to gather what the reapers left behind. These uses...
I never got into the corporate thrillers of the 1980s, ’90s, and aughts, the subject of a new retrospective at the Criterion Channel. These films tended to involve plots and characters that ostentatiously deplore that...
