Howard Zinn on America’s Three Holy Wars

Howard Zinn is an interesting historian, partly because he is so mundane. His field of specialty is the history of class struggle – hardly anything to write home about. What makes him interesting, is that he writes about class struggle in the US, where the very idea that there are separate classes, never mind a [...]

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The shadow that is South African politics

John Dewey has been quoted as saying of American democracy in the early 1900’s:

“As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”

The first part of the quote (politics is the shadow of big business) is interesting because it implies that politics [...]

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Chomsky got to get paid, son.

Taken from Post Modern Haircut – more adventures of  Noam and Predicate in the archives there.

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90th Anniversary of the Seattle General Strike

In early 1919, all the 110 local unions representing workers in Seattle called a general strike. 60,000 men and women (of a total population of 315,000 – that’s 19% of the population) downed tools and took to the streets.

During the first world war, the US had built a lot of ships (which were sold or [...]

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Chomksy on the Obama election

Read this recent talk by Noam Chomsky about the Obama win, and why he doubts there will be any of the much touted change:

“What’s next will depend on whether the same thing happens. Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what’s next [...]

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