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Zohran Mamdani and the History of Municipal Socialism

The stunning victory of self-identified “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic Party primary has sent a shock wave through the.

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Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History

In his recent executive order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump criticized historians for “replacing objective facts with.

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Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor

“When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;Yet what force on earth.

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Sean Griffin on The Root and The Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860

 Sean Griffin, The Root and the Branch (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys.

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Did your professor make you uncomfortable? There’s a law for that!

Lisa Phillips, Indiana State University, analyzes Indiana’s new law, SEA 202. The law, due to go into effect in June calls DEI (Diversity,.

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Ahmed White on Under the Iron Heel

Ahmed White recently published Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. It takes a closer look at.

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The Worlds of American Communism: An Interview with Author Joshua Morris

Joshua Morris has published The Many Worlds of American Communism in September. Morris completed his Ph.D. at Wayne State University and teaches at.

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The Role of Independent Working-class Political Action

This is the fourth and final contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of.

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A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship

This essay is the third contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.

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Donna Haverty-Stacke on her book: The Fierce LIfe of Grace Holmes Carlson

Donna Haverty-Stacke recently published The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist, available from New York University Press. Haverty-Stacke examines Grace.

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