Truthout
Book Review
Higher Education Is Now a Battlefield Between Workers and Corporatization
“Power Despite Precarity” offers a case study of how educators in the California State University system built power.
Graphic Biography Highlights the Life of Actor and Activist Paul Robeson
“Ballad of an American” tells the tale of Paul Robeson’s role in the earliest civil rights movement to a new generation.
New Book Digs Into Government Files to Keep Alive Memory of Radical Folk Artists
“The Folk Singers and the Bureau” is a vast treatise on the sad interplay between the red-baiters and the folkies.
A New Book Transcends Space and Time to Illustrate Historical Struggle
Peter Linebaugh's new book is an education in 18th century interracial history, revolution and class resistance.
The Phrase “Go Back Where You Came From” Has a Long, Violent History
In 1935, the U.S. told Filipino immigrants to “go back where they came from” with the Filipino Repatriation Act.
It’s Possible to Face Climate Horrors and Still Find Hope
David Wallace-Wells, who catalyzed the climate emergency movement, examines likely outcomes of the crisis in a new book.
The World Will End in Fire
The vanishing of ice from Earth is helping to rapidly render this planet uninhabitable.
US Corporations Are Micromanaging Curricula to Miseducate Students
Corporate curricula have an agenda: promoting capitalism at the expense of open inquiry.
The Roots of Fascism and the Seeds for Its Defeat
German revolutionary Clara Zetkin still holds lessons for the left in the fight against fascism.
“American Nightmare” Is an Antidote to Misguided Faith in Liberal Politics
Cultural critic Henry Giroux thinks that with education and organization, we might still overthrow neoliberal fascism.