American Working Class News Today

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by David Walsh and Joanne Laurier. Comrade Walsh is the arts editor of the <em>World Socialist Web Site </em>and Comrade Laurier is a major and regular contributor to the arts section of the website.

The break with Wohlforth is among the most significant events in the history of the ICFI, involving fundamental issues of historical perspective, political principle, organizational security and the defense of dialectical materialism.

Friedrich A. Sorge was the leading Marxist in the United States in the post-Civil War era, an intimate colleague and constant correspondent of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the General Secretary of the International Workingmen’s Association from 1872 to 1874, and a man who was personally involved in many of the events he was discussing in Die Neue Zeit. In short, these articles comprise a basic source for understanding the development of the American labor movement.

Wilton Library and Wilton Historical Society Explore the Struggle for Rights in America with Scholarly Series beginning on January 29

Mike Davis, who died Tuesday, was both a towering public intellectual and — crucially — a perpetual outsider and dissident, writes his co-author, Jon Wiener.

The "Person of Color Theme House" is a housing co-op located near UC Berkeley that "aims to provide housing to low-income...

Our organizing must be grounded in -- not bounded by -- local conditions, argues Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Louis Adamic's excellent history of the trial and acquittal of three leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood and George Pettibone, for the murder of ex-Idaho state governor Frank Steunenberg in 1906.

Aufheben present Theorie Communiste's reply and critique of their series of articles on decadence.

Interesting article looking at how black and white prisoners overcame racism through common struggle in the April 1993 prison rebellion in Lucasville, Ohio.