Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World. He spoke to Jacobin about the intimate links between the slave systems in the Americas and the origins of capitalism.
Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day (April 9) in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures, it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement which inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics.
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.
Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.
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A throwaway cigarette landed on a pile of cloth. 146 workers died. But this tragedy instigated a movement for workers' rights.
As the holiday has become mainstream, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee says #IWD has grown further away from its “socialist roots” and has “lost any association with its radical past.”
The threat posed by Trump and the MAGA movement, like the Confederate States, is not “conservative” or even “extremist” but criminally anti-democratic.
The physicist’s refuge from assassins on a British heath changed the course of history, as a new docudrama shows
A century after his birth, EP Thompson’s empathy with those facing scorn and condescension is more relevant than ever. The first paragraph starts: “The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.”
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