Link to an article by Paul Street:
Tag Archives: History
Paul Street – Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas
Link to a book review by Paul Street of David Garrow‘s Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017):
“Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas”
The bits about not citing Street’s own books sound a bit like “sour grapes”. Anyway, by way of contrast, try liberal historian Christopher Read‘s biography Lenin!
Chip Gibbons – The Imperial Bureau
Link to an article by Chip Gibbons:
Lars T. Lih – From February to October
Link to an article by Lars T. Lih:
Michael J. Coren & Clive Thompson – Luddites Have Been Getting a Bad Rap for 200 Years
Link to an interview of Clive Thompson conducted by Michael J. Coren:
“Luddites Have Been Getting a Bad rap for 200 Years. But, Turns Out, They Were Right”
Bonus link: “When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites”
Anatoly Shtyrbul – The Autonomous Industrial Colony “Kuzbass”
Link to an article by Anatoly Shtyrbul:
“The Autonomous Industrial Colony ‘Kuzbass'”
Bonus links: Project Kuzbas: American Workers in Siberia, “Descendants of Dutch Colonists Visit OAO Koks,” “From Stalingrad to Kuzbas: Sketches of the Socialist Construction in the USSR,” “The American Industrial Colony in Kuzbass in the Years of 1922–1927”
Mike McCarthy & Micah Uetricht – Worked to Death
Link to an interview of Mike McCarthy, author of Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions Since the New Deal (2017), conducted by Micah Uetricht:
Bonus link: Making Money
100th Anniversary of February Revolution
Links to articles about the February 1917 Revolution in Russia:
“A Guide to the February Revolution”
“The Story of the February Revolution”
Bonus links: Revolution at the Gates and The February Revolution: Petrograd, 1917
Ahmed Shawki – The Legacy of Malcolm X
Link to an article by Ahmed Shawki:
Bonus link: “To the Memory of Malcolm X: Fifty Years After His Assassination”
Margaret Garb – How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare
Link to an article and book review by Margaret Garb:
“How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare”