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February 28, 2023
When There’s a Communist Running City Hall
Elke Kahr, the mayor of Austria’s second-largest city, explains how her party built up trust over decades of organizing.
Lukas Hermsmeier
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February 24, 2023
Welcome to the New Age of McCarthyism
Strangely enough, all too little has changed since since the last one.
Tom Engelhardt
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February 21, 2023
The Absurd Specter of “Woke Communism”
Ironically, those decrying woke communism may be loony about “communism,” but they are unintentionally right that capitalism is indeed the problem.
Steve Fraser
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November 7, 2022
The Obscured and Forgotten History of Black Communist Women
A new anthology edited by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean highlights the legacy and enduring relevance of Black communist women’s political activism in the early 20th century.
Morgan Forde
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October 18, 2022
MI5’s War Against British Intellectuals and Artists
The British Security Service’s futile record of harassment and surveillance.
Richard J. Evans
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September 21, 2022
Remembering Ying Lee
Looking back at the life of a trailblazing activist and Berkeley’s first Asian American city council member.
David Bacon
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July 26, 2022
Letters From the August 8/15, 2022, Issue
Whole Earth generation… Maier and McCarthyism…
Our Readers
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May 2, 2022
What Is Left of History?
Joan Scott’s On the Judgment of History asks us to imagine the past without the idea of progress. But what gets left out in the process?
David A. Bell
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April 13, 2022
Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?
A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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April 7, 2022
Ari Brostoff’s Truth Is Out There
The author’s debut collection, Missing Time, is an eclectic mix of left-wing cultural criticism and personal essays on topics like The X-Files.
Natasha Lennard