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Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
And what today’s organizers can learn from them.
His new book cuts through economic orthodoxy on central banking. But he fails to reckon deeply with its political consequences.
Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?
To escape the imperial legacies of the IMF and World Bank, we need a radical new vision for global economic governance.
How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.
As the neoliberal order unravels, the international economic system can and must make room for cooperative forms of state-driven development.
The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
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