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Harry Bridges, the Pacific longshoremen’s leader is too large for life and almost too large as a biographical subject. Left historian Paul Buhle reviews the recent biography by Bob Cherny.

Comrade Sisters centers photographs and personal accounts of the women who made up over two-thirds of the party.

The great books aren’t just a collection of “dead white males,” and teaching or reading them isn’t elitist or Eurocentric. On the contrary, they are a treasure that should be made available and accessible to working-class people everywhere.

International Women’s Day is next week, when we celebrates the achievements of women in numerous walks of life–individual women who broke the proverbial glass ceiling and achieved success in careers and professions from which they had been excluded.

This book draws from the once well-known Ku Klux Klan hearings before Congress in the early 1870s, during which witnesses recounted their experiences with post-Civil War white supremacist terrorism in the Southern states.

Hazel Scott was a piano prodigy who wowed the worlds of music, TV, and film. But when she stood up for her rights, the establishment took her down.

Gary Dorrien’s sweeping history of American democratic socialism weaves personal, intellectual, and spiritual narratives together in a book that reminds us of the great potential of the socialist movement.

In a new collection, Ilya Budraitskis provides a trenchant analysis of the ideological underpinnings of Putin’s Russia and the domestic political groups that have opposed his government.

The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

In a critical assessment of this new book, reviewer Draitser challenges some widely-held views and assumptions about the Russia-Ukraine war.