The Myth of the Spat-Upon Soldier
Growing up in the late twentieth-century United States I, like many others, was taught that protestors against the Vietnam war spat on American soldiers when they returned home from the war. When I got older and studied history more thoroughly I discovered that I had been taught a myth. That spitting did not happen.
The CNT and Voting
The CNT typically discouraged its members from voting, or simply ignored elections, and did not participate inside the Spanish political system. During the Spanish Civil War it compromised its principles, and the results were disastrous.
U.S. Out of Afghanistan!
The war in Afghanistan is unethical and unjust. It kills thousands of people, is based on faulty logic, and protects an oppressive Afghan government. The United States must withdraw immediately.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a Joke
The Nobel Peace Prize has repeatedly been awarded to warmongers and imperialists while passing over the likes of Ghandi and Dorothy Day. Giving Barack Obama the prize is only the latest case discrediting it.
The Indian Ocean World in the Nineteenth Century
Review of “A Hundred Horizons” by Sugata Bose
The Modernity Myth
The concept of modernity is flawed, Eurocentric, and not a useful way to understand world history.
Class Struggle and the Jute-Mill Workers of Bengal
Critique of Rethinking Working-Class History by Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Households in Western History
Critique of The Household and the Making of History by Mary Hartman.
Coal Mining in the Ottoman Empire
Review of Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire by Donald Quataert.
Origins of the English Proletariat
Review of The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson.
End the Iraq War
The United States does not belong in Iraq and should immediately withdraw. US intervention in Iraq only brings death & destruction, while perpetuating imperialism and propping up a puppet dictatorship.
Rebuilding Saddam's Dictatorship
The torture of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers, made famous by the 'torturegate' scandal, is not an isolated incidence but part of something larger. The US is rebuilding Saddam's old dictatorship, but with new people (subordinated to Washington) on top.
The Spanish Civil War: From Syndicalism to Fascism
Overview of the 1936 anarchist revolution in Spain, the 1937 counter-revolution, and the civil war in which it occurred.
Russia: Revolution, Counter-revolution
A history and analysis of the Russian Revolution and its degeneration into totalitarianism.
Paris Commune: Myth vs. Reality
In 1871 citizens in Paris revolted and set up a rebel government. Although it had a radical fringe, this Paris Commune was merely a left-Republican uprising and was no where near as radical as is commonly portrayed.
A Short Biography of Nestor Makhno
A brief biography of the anarchist Nestor Makhno. Makhno played a major role in organizing the Ukrainian revolution and fighting counter-revolutionaries.
Fighting Tyranny with Tyranny
As a result of the Korean War, fascist Spain went from international pariah state to ally of the American Empire.