Politics

The Negro Waits to See The Negro Waits to See

AS NOVEMBER approaches, the Presidential race seems to be too close for partisans of either side to take comfort.

Oct 21, 1944 / Feature / Walter F. White

Fear is the Enemy Fear is the Enemy

Fear should not dictate our definition of democracy; a government should do all it can to protect and serve the basic liberties of all people.

Feb 10, 1940 / Eleanor Roosevelt

The Pacifist’s Dilemma The Pacifist’s Dilemma

In capitalist America it is mad utopianism to believe that the government can be armed for international war against fascist aggression or can enter such a war at a price tolerable...

Jan 16, 1937 / Norman Thomas

Birth Control, Religion and the Unfit Birth Control, Religion and the Unfit

Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes on the benefits of birth control, a practice which does not interfere with the pleasures of the unfit but saves society from their reduplication.

Jan 27, 1932 / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Hosts of Black Labor The Hosts of Black Labor

The South must reform its attitude toward the Negro. The North must reform its attitude toward common labor. 

May 9, 1923 / W.E.B. Du Bois

Shall Women Be Equal Before the Law? Shall Women Be Equal Before the Law?

The removal of all forms of the subjection of women is the purpose to which the National Woman's Party is dedicated.

Apr 12, 1922 / Elsie Hill and Florence Kelley

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

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