When Radicals Ran the U.S. Congress – Against the Current

Thaddeus Stevens:Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice By Bruce Levine

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Labor History Belongs to Us All: New Book Explores Forgotten Heroes of Movement

First as a reporter covering the American heavy metal scene, and now as a dogged independent journalist and organizer, Philadelphia-based author Kim Kelly has cultivated a distinct and unabashedly radical voice reporting on labor, politics and culture over the past decade.

Source: Labor History Belongs to Us All: New Book Explores Forgotten Heroes of Movement | Portside

Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Moderate

King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a “radical redistribution of economic and political power.”

Source: Opinion | Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Moderate | Peter Dreier

Ken Burns Talks to Jacobin About the Radical Ernest Hemingway

From fighting alongside communists in the Spanish Civil War to backing revolutionaries in Cuba, documentarian Ken Burns shows us the radical side of writer Ernest Hemingway in the new PBS docuseries Hemingway. Burns talks to Jacobin about Hemingway’s forgotten left-wing politics and why the writer still matters.

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