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Goodbye to Berlin’s Last Left-Wing Historian
Wolfgang Wippermann died on January 3. Now who is going to yell at all of Germany's historical revisionists? -
“Put a Crimp in the Belt and the Whole Belt Freezes”: The Anniversary of the Flint Sit-Down Strike
Today, 84 years ago, the Flint sit-down strike began. By sitting down, autoworkers stood up for the entire working class ... -
The Days the City Stood Still: Lessons From the 2005 NYC Transit Strike
Fifteen years ago this week, 34,000 members of Transportation Workers Union Local 100 went on strike, shutting down train and ... -
The First Mass Communist Party
The United Communist Party of Germany (VKPD) was founded 100 years ago. -
Engels as a Strategist of Socialism
200 years after his birth, a look back at the "First Red Clausewitz" -
Engels Against Reformism in Germany and France
Friedrich Engels was born 200 years ago today. Modern reformists like to cite Engels as an authority. But until his ... -
The First Thanksgiving Also Took Place During a Pandemic
The popular legend of Thanksgiving whitewashes the violent oppression and genocide of millions. The continuation of such an insulting myth ... -
U.S. Founding Law: Black Lives Don’t Matter
In 1705, the slave-owning politicians who made up the colonial legislature of Virginia passed a law that legalized the murder ... -
Mississippi Votes to Dismantle Vestige of Jim Crow
After 130 years, the Mississippi Constitution will no longer include the last of its Jim Crow-era provisions to keep the ... -
The Enduring Legacy of the Greensboro Massacre
On November 3, 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party gunned down anti-racist, pro-union protesters gathering ...