Economy

Does the Left Have a Future? Does the Left Have a Future?

With the Soviet model shattered forever, it is the social democratic one that is now in deep crisis in Western Europe. On the face of it, judging just by the results of June's Eu...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Marching Saint The Marching Saint

Staughton Lynd, although he would never admit it, is one of the visible saints of the modern American left.

May 22, 1997 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle

The Continent Divided The Continent Divided

Nineteen ninety-three was to be a banner year for Europe. With the opening of the Single Market people would cross frontiers without visas and goods would flow unhindered by tari...

Jan 8, 1993 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Farm Workers’ Next Battle The Farm Workers’ Next Battle

 A report on the enormous number of farm workers displaced by the farming machines developed at the University of California.

Mar 25, 1978 / Cesar Chavez

A Report from Occupied Territory

A Report from Occupied Territory A Report from Occupied Territory

These things happen, in all our Harlems, every single day. If we ignore this fact, and our common responsibility to change this fact, we are sealing our doom.

Jul 11, 1966 / James Baldwin

An Inter-Union Labor Struggle An Inter-Union Labor Struggle

Will the entrance of labor into industry as an employer compel a reexamination of union policies? 

Mar 18, 1925 / Various Contributors

Rosa Luxemburg grave in Berlin

A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto

Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...

Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring

The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few

The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few The Transatlantic Telegraph Will Concentrate Money and Power in the Hands of the Few

“Where it is all going to end, and what kind of life the ‘merchant of the future’ will lead, nobody knows.”

Sep 27, 1866 / Richard Kreitner

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