Boycotting Jim Crow: The Original Anti-Segregation Movement
When you look at real people, real people are messy; they don’t always make sense and they do not always perfectly adhere to a prescribed set of ideals.
Audio: Boycotting Jim Crow: The Original Anti-Segregation Movement
On this episode we speak with historian Blair L.M. Kelley about her award-winning book Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson, recently out by University of North Carolina Press.
Eliminate Wage Discrimination: Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act
Women have struggled for equality throughout human history, but especially since the early emergence of the private property and class division.
Preserving Socialism in Cuba
Today Vietnam is the second largest exporter of coffee in the world. And a Vietnamese official said to his Cuban colleague, "How is it that you taught us to grow coffee and now you are buying it from us?"
Engels on Capital and Surplus Value
For Marx every class-dominated mode of production sweats surplus labour out of the productive class – be they slaves, serfs, or modern workers.
Global Crisis, Occupation and Iraq
We take this opportunity to express, from this international forum, our gratitude for the international solidarity extended to our Iraqi people, democratic forces and Communist Party in the ongoing struggle, under extremely difficult and complex conditions, to end the occupation, restore full national sovereignty and independence and build a unified democratic and federal Iraq.
Individual and Society: The Dialectical Conception of History
The premise of all human society is the existence of living human individuals.
Strange and Monstrous
Perhaps the authors believe that the interests of the world revolution require that it should be given a push, and that such a push can be given only by war, never by peace, which might give the people the impression that imperialism was being “legitimised"?
Out of the Red Megaphone: The Modernist Protest Music of a Lost Age
While not often recognized in recent times, art in its most fearless could once be found amidst the political actions of the global Communist movement, and in our own nation through the organizing of the Communist Party USA.
