Eugene V. Debs

Black Marxist thought emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and the destructiveness of that oppression for all workers.

A new collection of essays by David Montgomery shows how he used labor history as a means of grappling with the largest questions in American history.

A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.

Grassroots support for public banks early in the 20th century revealed the popularity of socialism-aligned economic ideas.

In the 1920s, many in the U.S. fought for a living Constitution. Plenty of others wanted it dead.

A new book blames institutional Protestantism for undermining a vibrant strain of Christian radicalism that swirled through the Gilded Age.

The history of American Communism shows that dogma and fervor are no substitute for popular support.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

On the long tradition of Black third-party activism.

The law, passed in a frenzy after the First World War, is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was founded on the principle of interracial organizing.

Ever since the execution of labor radicals in 1886, reactionaries have tried to tarnish their legacy — and leftists have honored them as working-class martyrs.

In the early 1900s heyday of the Socialist Party, Texas boasted a vibrant state party that attracted oppressed farmers in droves.

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.

A look at socialism’s far-reaching influence on American thought.

Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions.

American Democratic Socialism has deep roots in the very “American” values it is accused of undermining.

A two-volume biography tracks the life and times of one of Harlem’s leading socialists.

Authorities who investigated Jane Stanford’s mysterious death said the wealthy widow had no enemies. A new book finds that she had many.

The US Civil War was a revolutionary upheaval that crushed slavery and stoked hopes of a broader emancipation against the rule of property.