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It must have seemed to Oregonians over the past few years that they have been at the epicenter of the disturbing phenomenon that Alt-America is all about.

After the latest in a series of right-wing harrassment campigns, George Ciccariello-Maher has been placed on leave at Drexel University. 

The promse of 1917 allowed African American women to assert themselves as an integral part of a global movement to end racism, sexism, and imperialism.

Moshé Machover responds to the Labour Party over his expulsion. 

"China" continues to be a kind of allegorical screen for thinking political fanaticism.

Outside of hard climate science, history should be the preeminent field for the study of global warming.

In the centenary of the October revolution, much has been said about it as a moment in history. Here McKenzie Wark inquires as to what becomes of the myth of October, now that we are in the time of the Anthropocene. 

To explain the origins of female subordination we need a theory that accounts for the control of women's work by men.

“Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.’’

The following is a comment on a forum held earlier this year engaging with the works of the late Patrick Wolfe, leading theorist on settler colonialism and author of Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Racism.

How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative. The End of Policing is 40% off until October 20, 23.59 PST

During Black History Month we share a letter written by James Baldwin, one of the foremost novelists and public intellectuals of the 20^th century. In 1970 Baldwin wrote an open letter to the then imprisoned Communist Party activist Angela Davis expressing his solidarity, and reflecting on racism and Black radicalism in America. This letter, reproduced below, also features in If They Come in the Morning…, a collection of classic writings on race edited by Angela Davis.