Norman Markowitz

Norman Markowitz is a former Professor of History. He writes and teaches from a Marxist perspective, and has written many articles on a variety of topics, including biographical entries on Jimmy Hoffa, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Civil Rights movement, 1930-1953, and poor peoples movements in American History.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Norman Markowitz

World

Dangerous schemes
December 22, 2006 By Norman Markowitz
If I believed in conspiracies, I might say that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s rightist president, was a CIA agent, working to isolate his country from the civilized world and set the stage for a military attack on...
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Labor

Play reveals struggles of South Asian women
December 1, 2006 By Norman Markowitz
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In response to Eve Enseler’s feminist “Vagina Monologues,” a series of theatrical vignettes on the theme of contemporary women’s gender and social oppression, South Asian Sisters, a California-based group, developed “Yoni Ki...
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U.S.

A true working class educator
September 15, 2006 By Norman Markowitz
Earlier this year, I attended a tribute to my late friend Wells Keddie, at the Labor Education Center of Rutgers University. Wells died in April after a lifetime of struggle in the labor movement and as...
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World

The death of Milosevic and the death of Yugoslavia
March 25, 2006 By Norman Markowitz
Slobodan Milosevic died recently in his prison cell, tried for war crimes by the NATO states that killed his nation, Yugoslavia, with the bombers and troops they sent to back reactionary separatist forces. Questions continue to...
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Peace

MOVIE REVIEW: Why we fight
March 17, 2006 By Norman Markowitz
It is a truism that knowledge is power. It is also true that ruling classes seek to hoard knowledge and use mass media to distribute propaganda. Not all propaganda though is disconnected from real knowledge.
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Opinion

End the death penalty
February 3, 2006 By Norman Markowitz
As a longtime New Jerseyan and death penalty opponent, I was happy that New Jersey’s Legislature had the courage to establish a death penalty moratorium.
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PrintEditions

Capitalism gone disgustingly mad
October 28, 2005 By Norman Markowitz
There is a real estate “boom” reported in New Orleans and other devastated areas as desperate people sell shattered houses and the speculators move in, buying up land to make money. Perhaps a future New Orleans...
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PrintEditions

Capitalism at $3 a gallon
October 7, 2005 By Norman Markowitz
After the New Orleans disaster, gas prices skyrocketed in a matter of days, shooting well over $3 a gallon everywhere in the U.S. While the prices have begun to come down somewhat, they are still substantially...
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