Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project insist the facts don’t support its proslavery reading of the American Revolution. But they obscure a longstanding debate within the field of U.S. history over that very issue.
Brooklyn residents and activists filed a complaint to the Environmental Protection Agency accusing NY's pipeline's project of violating their civil rights.
Formerly incarcerated workers aren’t just replacements filling staff shortages, they’re a legitimate part of the American workforce whose rights need to be protected and respected.
Hyper-capitalism has systematically weakened regulations to help capital at the cost of consumers. The verdict on the Elizabeth Holmes case illustrates the truth: Protecting private property is central to bourgeois law, not people.
Canada has been rocked in recent weeks by the "Freedom Convoys" that have descended on the nation's cities and blocked border crossings across the country. Bryan D. Palmer maps the political and social composition of this new alt-right uprising.
A Zinn Education Project report is a resource to help people press for more rigorous and truthful teaching of Reconstruction history, and to counter the "anti-history" proposals that are under consideration in 37 states.
Millions of Canadians are looking for clear leadership – to build a more united world – in the days and weeks ahead. Let each of us step up and be part of the solution.
Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Marc D. Bayard
The American Prospect
Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon Bessemer warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the South?
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