Brian Kwoba on his new book, Hubert Harrison
Brian Kwoba’s Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism offers an intellectual history of Harrison’s race-first labor activism and community organizing. Dr. Kwoba.
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New Book Interviews
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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.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- June 30, 2025
Issues of Labor
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Shades of Internationalism – The Left’s Complex Relationship with Immigration
Lucas Poy writes about the questions and some of the conclusions of his recently published essay in Labor: Studies of Working Class History.
- by Lucas Poy
- November 16, 2023
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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.
- by Chad Pearson
- September 24, 2022
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Who should “rule at home”?
Early in September, Polk County Iowa District Judge Jeffrey Farrell ruled that state officials had the right to overrule local school boards in.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- September 24, 2020
Book Roundtable
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Roundtable on Michael Goldfield’s The Southern Key: Civil Rights & Democracy
Today we begin a roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s..
- by James Pope
- July 13, 2020
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Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity
Duke University Press is allowing us to offer free access for three months to James Gregory’s provocative new essay “Remapping the American Left:.
- by James Gregory
- May 6, 2020
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The Alabama Communists in Days of Yore
The rewriting of radical history has occupied two generations of US historians, in one way or another, and among some especially fine efforts.
- by Paul Buhle
- January 23, 2020
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Jake Altman on Socialism before Sanders
Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues. In this edition, Stephanie Riley interviewed Jake Altman.
- by Stephanie Riley
- December 5, 2019
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The New Left, Labor History and the Unending Echoes of 1956
Stuart Hall with Bill Schwarz, Familiar Stranger: a Life Between Two Islands. Duke University Press, 2017. 271pp, $29.95 pbk Stuart Hall, Selected Political.
- by Paul Buhle
- June 9, 2017