In the Red (with Van Gosse)
Studying history can be a radical act but, as Marx wrote, "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
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To Build the Anti-War Movement of the Future, We Must Learn From the Past [Re-Sending with correct link!]
Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Van Gosse in The Nation, May 13, 2026
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/anti-war-movement-history/
Who Are the Revolutionaries in One Battle After Another?
Much of the critical writing about this movie gets both the history to which it refers, and its larger politics, all wrong. Let me state it plainly--
The guerrillas of the French 75 are not “inspired by the real-life Weather Underground,”...
Trump Wants a "Video Game" War in Iran
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/video-game-war-iran-trump
Who’s Afraid of a Mass Movement?
Social scientists, activists, pundits, and journalists all throw around the term “mass movement,” but what does that mean? There are plenty of movements--when does one take on a mass character? And what if MAGA constitutes a deeper, longer-...
"How Far to the Right Have We Gone?"
The organization I co-chair, Historians for Peace and Democracy (formerly Historians Against the War), organized this “town-hall” during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Looking at this poster now doesn’t induce nostalgi...
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I am an irredeemable Jacobin, still wondering how to make change. Thaddeus Stevens, the great American revolutionary, is my guide, but it could be a young Fidel Castro in the Sierra, pondering that question.
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