The History of the Young Lords of Chicago The Young Lords were formed in 1959 by seven youths. At that time many Puerto Ricans were getting beaten up by white gangs in the area, so the seven formed their own gang for protection. The main p…

The History of the Young Lords of Chicago

Quentin Deluermoz, The Paris Commune: A Global History – Verso, May 2026 Quentin Deluermoz, The Paris Commune: A Global History – Verso, May 2026 The Paris Commune as world revolutionary event and laboratory for republican and socialist ideas  In 1871 and over the…

Quentin Deluermoz, The Paris Commune: A Global History - Verso, May 2026

Exploring Marx for the USA Karl Marx in America Andrew Hartman The University of Chicago Press, 2025 594 pages, $39 hardcover. ANDREW HARTMAN’S KARL Marx in America intends to probe “the meaning of Karl Marx in A…

A book.

I’m worrying about the boomers with AI & political disinfo now. They love these political AI memes across the political spectrum & they’re fooled by fake videos & fake photos & fake news. They are seriously getting incapacitated from being to make real political decisions grounded in what happening.

Topic Rebecca Solnit Discusses "The Beginning Comes After the End" With Bill McKibben Third Act Advisor Rebecca Solnit discusses her latest book The Beginning Comes After the End, with Bill McKibben, Founder of Third Act Her latest book is a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and ...

The Beginning Comes After The End

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I should add: sometimes questionable. As is with us all. Ran out of characters and gave up trying to edit it down so I said what I said ✊

Dorrien's views on "democratic socialism" and his interpretations/narrative arguments are questionable. But his writing, research, and books serious, extensive, and valuable. READ more & write fewer puff pieces naming "angry" Reverdy Ransom "a pioneer in applying social ethics..." 🤦

Mary E. Woodbey Mary E Woodbey, "The World That Suffers," Chicago “The World That Suffers," Chicago Daily Socialist, 19 January 1909.

“Karl Marx with a host of armour bearers has proclaimed deliverance and emancipation to the workers of the world. So let us unite and take and own the industries and operate them for our own benefit.”
- Mary E Woodbey, Chicago Daily Socialist, 19 January 1909.

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Cedric Robinson's An Anthropology of Marxism with Steven Osuna (Part 1) YouTube video by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!

Starts tomorrow and I can't wait.

‘Reorganizing the International’ by Eugene V. Debs from National Rispsaw. Vol. 12 No. 10. December, 1915. Debs responds to the Zimmerwald Manifesto, warmly greeting the process of rebuilding an international worthy of the name in the aftermath of 1914’s historic and irreversible betrayal. ‘Reorga…

‘Reorganizing the International’ by Eugene V. Debs from National Rispsaw. Vol. 12 No. 10. December, 1915. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/02/10/r...

Just saw someone refer to "the silent majority" as the "alt-middle" in a comment and now I'm depressed.

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Go Left, Young Writers! A century ago, a socialist magazine published a manifesto calling for workers to pick up the pen, heralding the dawn of America’s proletarian literary movement. Our society’s need for working-class wr...

‘Do not be passive. Write. Your life in mine, mill, and farm is of deathless significance in the history of the world.’

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Re the headline: Two things can be true at the same time.

Very sad.

Chuck Schumer: STOP ICE NOW After another murder by federal agents in Minneapolis, we need ICE out of our cities and abolished. Corporate Democrats have been standing by and letting ICE terrorize our communities, tear apart fam...

Do at least the bare minimum (this) and then do more if you aren't already doing something.

Mourn. Organize.

Florida escalates its battle on sociology with new curriculum, textbook. Professors push back FIU faculty allege that new state mandates for an Introduction to Sociology course amount to an attack on academic freedom and censorship of the discipline. "There are no discussions of systemic or st...

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A sanitized, impoverished Intro to Sociology course.

he’s literally rotting

Anyone else going to Cincinnati in March for this? Presenting a paper, "Tracing & Digging for George Woodbey and the Black Socialist Tradition" for the panel "Underground Black Radicalisms." Let's link up!

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Help Moayed’s Family Survive War and Displacement in Gaza

The Life and Legacy of Sion Assidon For the Moroccan Jewish leftist, the decolonization of his homeland and the liberation of Palestine were inextricably entwined.

"The world was cleaved in two... between those who...resisted imperialism in all its forms, and those who did not. This, too, is the legacy he leaves us with: a resonant reminder that all of us, whatever community we belong to, have the same duty to fight colonialism wherever we encounter it."

Finally read *that* recent Vivek Chibber interview in Jacobin...it was worse than I could have imagined.