
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout “American democracy, always limited, has been drifting substantially toward plutocracy,” Noam Chomsky says. “But these tendencies are not graven in stone.”(Photo: Andrew Rusk; Edited: LW / TO) We…
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout “American democracy, always limited, has been drifting substantially toward plutocracy,” Noam Chomsky says. “But these tendencies are not graven in stone.”(Photo: Andrew Rusk; Edited: LW / TO) We…
By Donna Smith “From Maine to California the American people understand that establishment politics and establishment economics is not working,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders to great applause during a campaign…
By Kassandra Frederique February 29, 2016 http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/mama-roz-preudhomme-when-you-honor-me-you-honor-those-who-came-me <image001.jpg> She carries the name of the two women that she loves the most, her godmother and her grandmother, her name…
Cornel West. (photo: AOL) By Sarah Mimms, VICE Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina primary on Saturday night by almost 50 percent of the vote, thanks in large part to her support from the…
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Some of the groups targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO. (Source: Zinn Ed Project) This month marks the 45th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On…
As the crises we face intensify, so does the cry for the Movement of Movements to coalesce into one mass movement for change. But herein lies a seeming paradox: This…
By Andrew J. Bacevic Whether or not Donald Trump ultimately succeeds in winning the White House, historians are likely to rank him as the most consequential presidential candidate of…
by: Bill Fletcher, Jr. Socialism is not a thing; it is a process. It is a process of societal transformation with the aim of creating a free and egalitarian arrangement in…
by Brian Jones A 1930 unemployment rally at local Communist Party headquarters in Washington, DC. Library of Congress In a series of recent articles in the Atlantic, columnist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates criticized US presidential…
By Harold Meyerson Members of the audience during a campaign rally for Bernie Sanders in Minneapolis, 29 February 2016. , Jacquelyn Martin/AP, In 1906 German sociologist Werner Sombart wrote an essay entitled…
By: Danielle C. Belton Why another slavery narrative? One TV show cast is asking, “Why not?” That was the sentiment of the stars, writers and producers of the new slavery-based…
Fifty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the agenda and style of the legendary Black revolutionary organization remains relevant in today’s public discourse….