Editors' Blog
Lenin's State and Revolution Chapter One Part 2 by Thomas Riggins
Chapter One Sections 2 & 3.
Pete Seeger, Great American Peoples Artist, has passed Away by Norman Markowitz
Pete Seeger has passed away at the age of ninety four. Seeger will live through his songs as long as people through the world are struggling for peace, freedom, and socialism. C. Wright Mills the great sociologist who passed away too young, half a century ago, wrote that through the...
Martin Luther King 's Speech in Honor of WEB Dubois by Norman Markowitz
Martin Luther King Day has passed and African-American History Month will soon be here. Along with Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King and W.E. B. Dubois were in my opinion the three greatest African Americans globally in the 20th century. Only King has received the honor and respect in the U.S,...
A Poem on the World that We Continue to Fight Against on This Martin Luther King Day by Norman Markowitz
I received this poem from Jeanne Ross, a therapist and widow of Michael Nash, the late director of the Tamiment Library of NYU, the leading library of American Labor and the American left(where the CPUSA collections are now stored and available to all) in the U.S. Michael and Jeanne were...
Lenin on Class Society and the State by Thomas Riggins
State and Revolution Chapter One "Class Society and the State".
A Quick Correction on Mandela and Slovo and the Exchange by Norman Markowitz
I want to apologize for hastily referring to Ronald Kent as "Rockwell Kent," the great peoples artist of a long time ago at the beginning of my post. I was asked to find a link to the original exchange, and in looking for it,(I didn't find it) I found an...
Two Songs For Martin Luther King Day by Norman Markowitz
Yesterday, in teaching a class on the development of the Civil Rights Movement, I started off by playing these two very important songs. The first song King new well, the second, written and sung after his death, he certainly would have understood and respected, even its voice reflected the rage in the African-Amercian Northern slum ghettoes that he encountered in the very last years of his life.
