A striking trend is emerging. Movements of working class people are now adopting the rhetoric and tactics of Occupy Wall Street. In Atlanta, the Communication Workers of America and allies have begun an occupation to protest layoffs. In Chicago, students occupied a school slated for “turnaround.” And in New York City, Occupy the DOE (Department [...]
Robin argues that it is the reaction to movements which empower the lower orders, be they workers, women, people of color, peasants or any of the other groups that have found themselves on the bottom of society’s hierarchies, that defines the heart of the conservative project. By Paul Heideman American conservatism appears to have lost [...]
One thing that really stands out to me is Shakur’s keen ability to simultaneously see the “forest” and the “trees,” or the “global” and the “local,” as he brilliantly weaves together historical, economic and socio-political analysis with personal examples of how these things work on a day to day level in his own struggle for [...]
The authors intentionally challenge published history that emphasizes working-class white opposition to civil rights and radical politics and attributes most white radicalism to students. By Maya Pisel “Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times” presents the histories of five organizations that fought racism in the 1960s and ’70s by [...]
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