Class Struggle Anarchist 1/20/22 Class Struggle Anarchist 1/20/22

Tyranny vs. Democracy: A False Dichotomy

Critique of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Class Struggle Anarchist 1/19/15 Class Struggle Anarchist 1/19/15

Black Lives Matter

Murder is only illegal if you're not a cop.

Class Struggle Anarchist 6/8/14 Class Struggle Anarchist 6/8/14

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.

Class Struggle Anarchist 11/9/12 Class Struggle Anarchist 11/9/12

Nixon

A brief note on some aspects of Richard Nixon’s Presidency.

Class Struggle Anarchist 8/8/12 Class Struggle Anarchist 8/8/12

Elections, Policy, and Reform in Twentieth-Century History

The actions of the state are contingent on factors other than who wins the election, such as the status of the economy, the use of direct action by popular movements, interaction with other states, the needs & desires of the 1%, technological changes, etc.

Class Struggle Anarchist 9/8/10 Class Struggle Anarchist 9/8/10

Treating the Symptoms, Not the Disease

Minor reforms to the prevailing social structure, even when they make genuine improvements, neglect the underlying root causes of social problems and end up treating the symptoms, not the disease. What is needed are not the minor cosmetic changes liberals propose but a radical restructuring of society.

Class Struggle Anarchist 3/22/10 Class Struggle Anarchist 3/22/10

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.

Class Struggle Anarchist 10/13/09 Class Struggle Anarchist 10/13/09

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.

Class Struggle Anarchist 9/9/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 9/9/08

Smashing Dissent

Police brutality towards protesters at this year’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions rose to levels not seen at a convention since 1968. The police conducted preemptive raids on activist houses, arrested journalists, attacked demonstrations with explosives, rubber bullets, and a variety of chemical weapons, spied on organizers, and filed “terrorism” charges against dissidents.

Class Struggle Anarchist 5/1/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 5/1/08

Sixties Activists Tell Their Stories

Discussion of Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s by Jeff Kisseloff.

Class Struggle Anarchist 4/24/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 4/24/08

The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow

Review of The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward.

Class Struggle Anarchist 4/17/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 4/17/08

Radicalizing White Anti-Racists in the Sixties

Review of Freedom Summer by Doug McAdams

Class Struggle Anarchist 4/3/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 4/3/08

MLK & Malcolm X

Review of Martin and Malcolm in America by James H. Cone.

Class Struggle Anarchist 3/20/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 3/20/08

MLK and the History of the Civil Rights Movement

Review of The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson.

Class Struggle Anarchist 2/20/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 2/20/08

Early Reparations Movements

Review of My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Francis Berry

Class Struggle Anarchist 2/14/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 2/14/08

Patriotism and the history of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

Review of the book Eyes on the Prize by Juan Williams

Class Struggle Anarchist 11/6/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 11/6/07

Cotton Mill Workers in the Southern U.S.

Review of Like a Family by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al.

Class Struggle Anarchist 10/23/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 10/23/07

Healthcare Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Milwaukee

Review of The Healthiest City by Judith Walzer Leavitt.

Class Struggle Anarchist 4/30/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 4/30/07

Labor Unions and Telephone Operators

Review of four books on the history of telephone operators in the US.

Class Struggle Anarchist 4/21/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 4/21/07

The Collapse of the Knights of Labor

The Knights of Labor grew to become the largest nineteenth-century labor union in the US after winning a major railroad strike in 1885. It then collapsed due to intense, sometimes violent, opposition from employers and the state.

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