“I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery…” Kindred is a 1979 novel by Octavia Butler (1947-2006), an African American science fiction author. The story focuses on Dana, the main character, who is forced to travel through time between her...
December 1982 seemed like the beginning of a turning point in Palestinian history. In 1982, it seemed that the fortunes of the Palestinian people were at a low point. After decades of Zionist intrusion from the late 19th century on, the 1947 United Nations Partition,...
January 15 marks the anniversary of the 1919 murders of revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent German socialists of the early twentieth century. They were active at a time when Germany had a powerful workers’ movement, rife with...
On Thursday, November 17, scholar of the people and lifelong activist Staughton Lynd died at the age of 92. Lynd was part of a generation of young scholars who came of age in the 1960s, perhaps best exemplified by himself and Howard Zinn, who sought to pursue...
Twenty-two years ago, on September 28, 2000, a massive struggle erupted in the occupied territories of Palestine. The territories are located to the East of the state of Israel, and are home to four million Palestinian people living under military occupation by...
