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  • People's Party Convention, 1890, Columbus, Nebraska. via Wikimedia Commons.

    Rainbow Coalition or Class War?

    The only way to overcome the divisions within the working class is to confront them directly. The problem of white supremacy must be fought out openly within the working class.

  • Du Bois, second from right, at the second Pan-African Congress, Brussels, 1921.

    W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Sovereignty

    An inquiry into Du Bois' articulation with Liberia, colonialism and its concomitant formations of Black middle classes, the history of the "Americo-Liberian" elite, and the advent of the United States as a colonial power.

  • via Wikimedia Commons.

    Trump Asked "Where does it stop?" That’s Actually a Good Question

    The forty-fifth president essentially argued that, taken to its logical conclusion, an anti-slavery criteria would force us to take down monuments to many of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Trump is, in effect, calling our bluff: are we willing to face the full extent of racist violence in America’s history?

  • Antifascists in Charlottesville, August 12. via It's Going Down.

    Those Who Refuse

    Today we must remember Heather Heyer and all those who left their homes in the morning to fight for justice, knowing that they might not come back. These people are never angels or saints. They are ordinary people, like you and me. Their refusal could not be silenced.

  • via Federation of American Scientists.

    Nuclear Imperialism and Extended Deterrence

    Any concept which — like "exterminism" — collates all the "inertial," "irrational," "symmetrical" and institutionally "autonomous" aspects of the arms race into a single over-riding process will make it harder to understand the purposeful, strategic function of the current arms build-up within the larger context of the New Cold War.

  • Pathet Lao soldiers, Vientiane, 1973. via Wikimedia Commons.

    Nationalism Painted Red

    Grant Evans and Kelvin Rowley look at the development of communist movements in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia and respond to the claims of Western analysts who rooted conflicts between them after 1975 in "traditional" antagonisms. 

  • Detail from Rufino Tamayo's Animales, 1941.

    The Surrealist Continent

    Throughout the twentieth century the concerns of artists in Europe and North America have had an obvious impact on the art of Latin America, yet it is important to recognize the particular significance of movements such as Surrealism or abstraction within a non-Western context.

  • Dome of El Koubba Mosque, Tunis; where Ibn Khaldun studied.

    Ibn Khaldun and The Myth of "Arab Invasion"

    In this excerpt from Ibn Khaldun: The Birth of History and the Past of the Third World, Yves Lacoste shows how Ibn Khaldun's work refutes the myth of the "Arab invasions [of the Maghreb] of the eleventh century," despite the uses to which it has been put by the authors of the myth.