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On Tariq Ali's support for John Kerry

American Flags

Who is Bill Ayers?

Bard College

Leon and me

Some animals are more equal than others

The Speech that Jack Barnes should have given

Book party for Wald-LeBlanc book on American Trotskyism

Brownbagging at the Monthly Review

Paul Buhle's "Images of American Radicalism"

Peter Camejo (1939-2008)

Remembering Peter Camejo

The Camejo Vote

Camejo and Shawki

Cancelling a Nation subscription

The "Cochranite" legacy

Cynthia Cochran memorial meeting

Cockburn and Hitchens feud

Jeff Cohen's Kerry endorsement

The Communist Party versus Liza Featherstone

Conference on American Trotskyism

Cliff Conner's "People's History of Science"

Crisis at Pacifica

The devolution of Alexander Cockburn

Michael Denning's "The Cultural Front"

Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman

Dime's Worth of Difference

Remembering Sol Dollinger

Genora Dollinger: Child of the Sit-Downs

Open Letter to G. William Domhoff

After the 2004 Elections

Dear Barbara Ehrenreich

Encounters with the FBI

American Eustonians

Thomas Frank book review

Stan Goff, Bill Fletcher and the 2-party system

Stan Goff rejects Marxism: a reply

Greens Under Pressure

Should the Green Party mollify the Democrats?

Howard Dean and the Iowa Primary

Health care cuts

In reply to Henwood, Featherstone and Parenti

Doug Henwood's Kerry endorsement

Alger Hiss accuser is Alger Hiss Professor

Is H-Net going under?

Reign of terror in Houston

The Insanity Defense

Maurice Isserman versus the new SDS

Russell Jacoby versus Eric Lott

John Kerry and Langston Hughes

JFK

Kuby and Sliwa

Dear Nicholas Kristof

Left Forum 2005

Left Forum 2006

Left Forum 2008

Left Forum 2009 (Saturday)

Left Forum 2009 (Sunday)

Rush Limbaugh's problems

Left in form, right in essence

Frank Lovell

Caroline Lund memorial meeting

Harry Magdoff Memorial Meeting

Samori Marksman

Reply to Eric Mann and Ted Glick on supporting Kerry

Letter to Ray Markey on stopping Bush

Sam Marcy

Thoughts on the 2006 midterm elections

Michael Moore

Felix Morrow

Marx, Woodhull and Sorge

A 1996 meeting for Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader 2000

In defense of Nader

Examining the motives of Nader and Camejo

Behind the anti-Nader attacks

The case for Camejo and Nader

Early Days of the Nation Magazine

The Nation Magazine's Tainted Liberalism

Whither The Nation Magazine?

The Nation Magazine and the 2008 elections

The Myth of the New Deal

The New York Press: dogshit on the sidewalk

New York Review of Books

Deconstructing Obama

The Obama Cult

Marxists for Obama: a bumpy road ahead

Obama wins over the 'decent left'

Progressives for Obama: still intoxicated

President Obama, Governor Paterson and Ayn Rand

Is Obama a socialist?

Why Obama would likely lose to McCain

Obama disappoints

A panel discussion on Obama

The New Yorker cover cartoon of the Obamas

Obama, McCain and the VFW

Pacifica and the Internet

Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle and a new graphic history of SDS

Comments on a Phelps-Luce-Brenner article on the Democrats

Politicians, consultants and the class struggle

The political economy of the sell-out

Popular Front politics

Ratner, Bostein and Gehry: birds of a feather

Red Diaper Baby

Reflections on Bert Cochran

Reply to LeBlanc on his comments on my review

Reply to a realo

Reply to Rick Perlstein on the Democrats

Revolution in the Air

Review of Harvey Klehr's "Secret World of American Communism"

Review of Wald-LeBlanc book on AmericanTrotskyism

Rooseveltomania

The Rosenbergs

A.M. Rosenthal

Junius Scales

Ruminations on Simon's Rock

Savage Mules

Excluding Reds from SDS

Shakers

Socialist Scholars Conference 2003

The American SWP and anti-imperialist struggle

Hunter Thompson

Tim Unwise

Letter to a Washington Post editor

Is there a connection between Leon Trotsky and Paul Wolfowitz?

Whigs and Democrats

Sean Wilentz, Ralph Nader and the early 1960s

Sean Wilentz, Whigs and Democrats

Max Sawicky, Marc Cooper and the late Tookie Williams

Gordon S. Wood on Sean Wilentz

Debunking Bob Woodward

The Wobblies

Michael Yates's "In and Out of the Working Class"