The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power, Great Britain, and the establishment of the world’s first modern democratic republic.
What is it about an event that took place so long ago that still, to this day, rouses a sense of loss?
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Whatever the outcome of the election, the American political system is breaking down. The type of fascistic movement that Trump is constructing will continue to grow in strength and can only be opposed through the development of a socialist movement in the working class.
This supplementary review exposes Beatty’s manipulation of evidence related to Gerry Healy’s youth in Ireland.
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Tom Mackaman. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
Issued days before the Independence Day holiday, two years shy of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Republic, the decision on presidential immunity from prosecution guts the American constitutional framework.
Even by the standards of American “political culture,” Thursday night’s presidential debate between US President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump was a spectacle of degradation, reaction and stupidity.
The ruling spelled the beginning of the end of legal segregation based on race—but in the decades since the American ruling class has gutted public education.
Despite the dramatic prospects for both, worthy historical treatments of the American Revolution have been far outnumbered by those of the Civil War.
Any historical appraisal of Bridges, the most notable Stalinist labor official in US history, raises important historical questions for workers today.
What the Biden administration is and what it is prepared to do arise from the class interests the Democratic Party represents--and from its entire history.
The essay presents a new and more virulent form of racialism justified, as in the 1619 Project, through the falsification of history.
The second of the three-volume biography of Cannon is an indispensable source on the early history of Trotskyism in the US.
The very fact that the third clause of the Fourteenth Amendment—banning those who have committed insurrection from holding public office—is now relevant testifies to the depth of the present crisis.
The data center will bulldoze unprotected land and encroach on the boundaries of Manassas Battlefield National Park, staining the landscape for millions of visitors looking to understand the progressive revolutionary history of the United States
The only other political censure in the history of Congress—that of abolitionist Joshua Giddings in 1842—was bound up with the struggle against slavery that culminated in the Civil War.
Rather than rejecting out-of-hand the provocative offer, the UAW intends to bring the contract for another vote, tentatively scheduled for November 15.
The episode at Boston University reveals—once again—the pecuniary, intellectually bankrupt, and essentially fraudulent character of racialist ideology.
The break with Wohlforth is among the most significant events in the history of the ICFI, involving fundamental issues of historical perspective, political principle, organizational security and the defense of dialectical materialism.
