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Rural workers of the early 20th century caught their sleep in boxcars and meals in the open air. Lured by labor agents' promises of steady work, they drifted broke and hungry from camp to camp, huddling beneath tents and hastily built shacks, strangers to plumbing and doctors, but all too familiar with illness, accidents, and

An Introduction to Class Struggle in the US, 1973-1998

Reflections of an Anti-Imperialist after Ten Years of Debate An Interview with Gilbert Achcar Clash of Barbarisms (2002, 2006);  Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2007); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010);  Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism (2013); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013); and  Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016). He was interviewed by St...

What does it mean to be a left anti-imperialist today?

by Michael K. Smith / January 16th, 2021 Whether Donald Trump’s behavior on January 6 actually meets the legal definition of “coup” or “insurrection,” or merely represents the umpteenth “triggering” of Democrats eager to benefit from the latest whirlwind of Trumpian chaos, remains to be seen. While this weighty matter is sorted out, perhaps we can take a moment to reflect on the bright side of having had Donald Trump as president. One thing we ought to appreciate is that his fast-...

by Michael K. Smith / December 22nd, 2020 In an interview with Peter Robinson, Thomas Sowell (Hoover Institution) criticizes the political work of Noam Chomsky on grounds that make clear he does not distinguish Chomsky’s libertarian socialism from the technocratic and highly militarized state capitalism favored by liberal elites. Incredibly, Sowell lumps him in with the liberal intelligentsia Chomsky has long attacked, ignoring the glaring fact that liberal elites loathe Chomsky precisely bec...

How Do You Get Away With Genocide, Terrorism, And Human Rights Violations? Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling Despite genocide against the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara, the Trump administration just announced an agreement in which the US will recognize as legitimate the illegal occupation of that territory. The US also plans to sell 50 stealth F-35 fighter jets to the UAE, a country that has a history of human rights abuses. And Sudan is coming off the US terrorism blacklist. Th...

Reporter: Are you the owner? Morris: They took four trillion dollars of stimulus money. They gave it to who? Special interest groups and campaign donors. I’m Dave Morris. I own the place. Reporter: So what’s going on? Morris: What’s going on? You know what’s going on. Reporter: You tell me. Morris: Hey, we got a government that has taken the stimulus money. They gave it to special campaign donors. They gave it to special interests. They abandoned me and they had put me in a position wh...