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Mine Strikes and Commie Songs

John Hennen: Eastern Kentucky union fighters like Sam and Florence Reece, and the radical leftists of the NMU, laid the foundation for the American middle class.

The Port of Oakland Statement

By H. Scott Prosterman

Scott Prosterman: Our crappy education system isn’t even producing effective radicals these days. Where is Saul Alinsky when you need him? Has anyone read “Rules for Radicals” lately?

Romney Gets Borked

By Andy Love

Andy Love: Imagine if Bork hadn’t been Borked. There he would sit with the other radicals on the Court — Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito,

July 4 Infamy: Republicans Try to Destroy America’s Economy

By Brent Budowsky

Brent Budowsky: On this July 4 the Republican Party is divided between the hope America fails Republicans, who appear to actively want joblessness to rise to seek political gain, and the radical Republicans who adore Ayn Rand.

A Dialogue Concerning Advocacy and Criminality

By Jonathan David Farley

Jonathan Farley: Why do campaigning organisations like the NAACP defend plain thugs but ignore genuine radicals?

Manning Marable: Provocative Scholarship In Life & Death

By Anthony Asadullah Samad

Anthony Samad: Manning Marable, and his provocative scholarship, will be sorely missed. We’ve lost a true radical thinker and articulator of the African American experience in America.

Concerning Advocacy and Criminality

By Jonathan David Farley

Jonathan Farley: Why do campaigning organizations like the NAACP defend plain thugs but ignore genuine radicals?

A Radical Solution for the War in Afghanistan

By Ivan Eland

Ivan Eland: The problem is that the U.S. goal in Afghanistan—although President Obama has reduced it from George W. Bush’s instituting democracy to merely stabilizing the country—is still too ambitious.

Toward a More Complete MLK Day

By Simon Balto

Simon Balto: King understood that the problems of America involved much more than racial inequality, and—in answer to LBJ’s question—what he in fact wanted was “a radical redistribution of power.”

U.S. Military Needs a Radical Homosexual

By Carl Matthes

Is he the U.S. military’s worst nightmare? Imagine, a radical homosexual with his hands on the military’s purse strings. It’s hard to believe that after 15 years of repressive, misguided military policy (“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”), which stigmatized and prevented gay men and lesbians from serving honestly and openly in our country’s Armed Forces, the [...]