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Reader Comments, Elections - It's The Economy and Abortions; Lessons of Cuban Missile Crisis; Socialist Lessons; Announcements: Communists in Closets; Anti-Fascism in the 21st Century; The Farmer-Labor Movement; Cartoons; more....

The successes achieved by the USSR thanks to the socialist revolution of 1917 were undone by the counter-revolution of 1991 as Russia returned to its past.

Chan Davis, died last month at 96, faced down McCarthyite blacklists and imprisonment to pursue a brilliant academic career. Davis knew how to change and learn from political experience, but he always remained loyal to his socialist principles.

While industrial capitalism got rid of the landlord class, capitalism still had economic rent, but instead of being paid to the landlord class, it is now paid to the banks in the form of interest.

Reader Comments: Climate Crisis; Morality Police - Iran AND USA; War on Drugs; Cuba; Socialist Values; Amanda Gorman; Cartoons; Resources; Announcements; more; ....

Reader Comments: Capitol Coup Insurrectionist Removed from Office; What Mar-a-Lago Documents Show; Mikhail Gorbachev; GDR - Victor Grossman responds; Rings of Power; Union Approval highest since 1965; Cartoons; more....

Dubbed “the Negro Eugene Debs,” Frank Crosswaith was one of the great socialists of the early to mid-20th century. And his message was unwavering: only a vigorous labor movement and democratic socialist policies can deliver a better life for black workers.

Reader Comments: Student Debt Forgiveness; Jan. 06, Racism and Fascism; New York Primary; Union Wave Hits Chipotle; On the Departed GDR; Chile Votes on Sunday; Cartoons; more....

I defected to the GDR 70 years ago, finding neither Utopia nor the hunger, poverty and misery American media might have led me to expect. I hope that new generations learn from the GDR, and not only from its blunders, nasty habits and limitations.

More so than any other genre, the blues addressed the misery of black American life under capitalism. The work of the late historian Paul Garon made an invaluable contribution to unearthing this tradition’s radical roots.