Breaking Up with Bernie

A Sandernista ends things with Bernie

1917: Black Troops Rebel Against Jim Crow in Houston

The year was 1917. Black Troops in Houston rebel against police violence and against Jim Crow.

Betsy DeVos: The Anti-Public School Secretary of Education

Betsy DeVos is, without a doubt, the least qualified, most anti-public school person to ever be nominated as Secretary of Education. Never having worked in, attended or studied public schools, her education experience is in lobbying to dismantle public education.

Trump, Racism and the Working Class

Racism among workers cannot be condoned or concealed. Working class unity begins by embracing the demands of the most oppressed.

“Right-to-work” laws –what they are and how to fight them

High at the top of the GOP and big business wish list for the New Year is a National Right-To-Work (RTW) law aimed at gutting the ability of the unions to finance themselves and fight back against the bosses’ agenda. What is RTW and how can we fight it?

UCLA Talks Global Resistance Against Policing

The Undercommons and UCLA’s African Activist Association hosted a conversation about global resistance against policing. Speakers halied from South Africa, Brazil, the Phillipines and Los Angeles.

UCLA Offers a Scholarship for White People Who Live in Hawaii

A UCLA scholarship for graduate students is "for residents of Hawaii, with preference given to a Caucasian graduate student who is a resident of Hawaii."

Mike Davis: Trump, Pat Buchanan and…Zombies

This article was originally published in Spanish in Ideas de Izquierda soon after the elections. I finally think I’ve understood why we’re so obsessed with zombies. The discarded shroud, the rustling in the weeds, the vaporous apparitions seen from Pocatello to Lake Wobegone, the ghost army of admirers…. we were forewarned that he was back […]

The Green Party: A Washed-Out Strategy of the Left

Several leftist parties placed their bets on the Greens. Despite favorable conditions for the growth of the Greens, they failed to become the dynamic third party that so many leftists believed they would.