Letter: What’s Good for the Goose?
A new journal, Geese Magazine, has arrived on the scene with its first issue, Storming Heaven. A promissory title. Having read through its articles and …
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Socialist Noirvember
Hank Kennedy discusses film noir’s relationship to the 1940s Hollywood Left and highlights two films of interest for socialist cinephiles. November is often known by …
The Double Tragedy of Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
Sam Miller reviews Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ arguing that although the central character is less Promethean than the opening epigram implies, the film is still effective as …
Which Way, CPUSA?
Has the CPUSA truly rid itself of its past loyalty to the US Constitution? Luke Pickrell and Myra Janis cast doubt. Socialism with American Characteristics …
Letter: On CPUSA and “Socialism with American Characteristics”
As a CPUSA member, I appreciated the article “Socialism with American Characteristics.” The CPUSA program is worthy of critique. It is frustrating and unwieldy. It’s …
Socialism With American Characteristics
Luke Pickrell and Myra Janis critique the 2019 updated party program of the Communist Party, USA, arguing that the CPUSA’s continued commitment to the Popular …
Trust the Bridge That Carried Us Over: The Failure of Operation Dixie 1946-53
Veronica Darby presents a history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations’ (CIO) failed seven-year-long attempt to organize the Southern United States. Introduction On March 3rd, …
Lev Gleason: Crime Comics’ Communist Czar
Hank Kennedy recounts the life and work of U.S. left-wing comics publisher Levrett Stone Gleason. Crime Does Not Pay no. 42, 1945. When people think …
American Communist Labor Strategy during the Third Period (1929-34) with Victor Devinatz
Annie and Cliff join Victor Devinatz, a management theorist and labor historian, to discuss the formation of the Trade Union Unity League (TUUL), its successes …
The African Blood Brotherhood, its Relations and Legacy
Combining the insights of previous scholarship with information gathered from Bureau of Investigation (BOI, predecessor of the FBI) surveillance documents, Ian Szabo presents a new …
The History of Palestine Solidarity in the US with Michael Fischbach
Josh and Rudy join Michael Fischbach, author of Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Communities of Color and The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided …
Sectarianism Among Communists in American History
Joshua Morris writes on the phenomena of sectarianism in the early US Communist Movement. He is currently authoring a book “The Many Worlds of American …
Popular Radicalism in the 1930s: The Forgotten History of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill
Chris Wright details the popular campaign for the Communist authored Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, a moment in US labor history that is overshadowed by Roosevelt’s …
Weaponized Words: The Language of Anti-Communism
Joshua Morris discusses the development and deployment of anti-communist rhetoric in the United States from the beginnings of the 20th Century to the early Cold …