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Tom Harrison, back row, center; Joanne Landy, second row, right This interview was originally published in Left History. This version is reposted from New Politics, where it was republished in 2018. Joanne Landy died in 2017. See here for a brief obituary. Introduction

The final section of chapter 8 of "Storming Heaven". On the influence of the Industrial Workers of the World.

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.

Matthew Quest, writing for Insurgent Notes, details CLR James' treatment of Lenin across decades of James' work. While CLR James broke with with Trotskyism and Trotsky as well as the Leninist party form, he never properly broke with Lenin or his works.

Archived copy of the Class against Class website, with links to all the articles it contained.

A conversation with writer about her pathbreaking book Scenes of Subjection and how our understanding of race has changed in the last two decades. 

Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far from historically accurate.

Having previously disregarded historiography, Silverstein now falsifies it—and admits to privileging “narrative” over “actual fact.”

Dan Georgakas's personal recollections of radicals in Detroit and the people who formed the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.