Skip to main content

Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance

Melissa Gira Grant The New Republic
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.

This Week in People’s History, Dec 17–23, 2025

Portside
Head shot of Frederick Douglass
‘Our Government May at Some Time Be in the Hands of a Bad Man’ (1866), Cracking Down on Radicals (1795), Emancipation, What Good Is It? (1865), Music at the Library (1940), New Direction for Jazz (1960)

Israel’s Gaza Proxy Strategy Is Collapsing

Muhammad Shehada +972 Magazine
The killing of gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab, a known felon and druglord, by one of his own men has exposed the bankruptcy of Israel’s vision for the Strip.

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism

Vivek Chibber, Melissa Naschek Convergence
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergenc

The Radical Who Invented Robin Hood

Mat Coward Morning Star
An 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — and blacklisted writers popularized his story for a new generation in the 1950s TV show.