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Racecraft is not a euphemistic substitute for racism. It is a kind of fingerprint evidence that racism has been on the scene.
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Posts tagged: history
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Sicily as Autonomous Community
In The Invention of Sicily, Jamie Mackay offers a sweeping history of Sicily from ancient times to the present day. Mackay presents Sicily's history as one of an autonomous community fighting for liberation against their oppressors.
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The Economist: Liberalism's Historical Record
Historian Alexander Zevin looks through the pages of the Economist and finds a record of democracy's challenge to liberalism.
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Amphibious Capital
Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás analyze the relationship between the land and sea in capitalist production, reproduction, and circulation.
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Trump’s Half-Baked March on Rome
Chris Vials explores the history of fascism under Mussolini and in Latin America to interpret the mayhem at the Capitol on January 6.
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“Woman Wants Bread, Not the Ballot!”
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the US, we highlight a radical speech from Susan B. Anthony on women's suffrage as one step in a greater economic revolution.
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The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
The development of distinctive property forms in English agriculture entailed new forms of class struggle. If we want to sum up the ways in which class struggle between landlords and peasants 'liberated' capitalism, it might be closer to the truth to say that capitalism was advanced by the assertion of the landlords' powers against the peasants' claims to customary rights.
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Truth and Lies and Monuments
Robert Bevan investigates the political and historical debates behind taking down statues
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The Whole World Is Watching
While delegates made their way to Chicago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention, tens of thousands of protesters were set to converge in the city for a week of civil disobedience. Protesters, passersby, and even residents out on their porches were beaten. The chasing, swinging, and clubbing was indiscriminate. Journalists, denied any special treatment, were battered and taunted, at times even targeted.
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Tear gas: from the battlefield to the streets
In this excerpt from Tear Gas, Anna Feigenbaum describes the history of the Himsworth Report, used by governments around the world to justify the use of tear gas.
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What did Henry Wallace stand for?
Henry Wallace was attacked and then dismissed because he proposed “a century of the common man and woman.” Almost eighty years of that century have passed since his dismissal, and his fight for the future is largely forgotten.
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In memoriam: Neil Davidson, 9 October 1957 – 3 May 2020
Jamie Allinson remembers Marxist historian, Neil Davidson, author of the groundbreaking How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? who died May 3, 2020.
