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“Selma” will inspire you

January 16, 2015 By Frank Chapman

A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery.

AFL-CIO opens Civil and Human Rights Conference in Atlanta

January 15, 2015 By Mike Hall

Today kicks off the AFL-CIO's 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference in Atlanta.

Socialist-minded people still need to discuss implosion of Soviet socialism

January 9, 2015 By Rick Nagin

All socialist-minded people should be encouraged to discuss Sam Webb's "Season's Reflections on Socialism."

“Here, nobody surrenders”: 56 years since the Cuban Revolution

January 7, 2015 By Emile Schepers

The Cubans greeted the victory of the Revolution with rejoicing and a burst of energy as they put their shoulders to the wheel of building a new society on socialist principles.

The right’s working class philosopher

December 15, 2014 By Peter Cole

Nicknamed the "longshoreman philosopher," Eric Hoffer was the best-known working-class author and intellectual in postwar America.