Figure 1: St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C., one of only two mental asylums ever operated by the U.S. federal government (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) By Jeremy Peschard In recent years, politicians in the United States have paid significant attention to two major political issues: firstly, the increased number of…
Picture by Rev John Weeks, ‘Native tally of the killed and wounded’. It shows pieces of plantain stalk threaded on a string, each stalk representing a life taken. The large pieces symbolised the chiefs and ordinary men who had been killed, the shorter ones represented the murdered women and children. Source: London School of Economics, Morel Archives.
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By Charlotte Mertens In the wake of accusations of mass rape and sexual torture of Israeli women by Hamas and the ongoing sexual (and other)…
Promotional material for the 2022 National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Source: Congressional Equality Caucus. By Aishah Scott Since 1999, February 7th has been observed as National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) in the United States to acknowledge the continuous…
External view of Kamloops Indian Residential School taken at a distance. Source: Archives Deschâtelets-NDC, Richelieu. By Kat Fuller “The Canadian Mass Grave Hoax” is the title of a YouTube video by the infamous Canadian political commentator Lauren Southern. Southern is…
Dawson speaking, circa the early 1970s. Source: Dawson, Kipp. Gay Liberation: A Socialist Perspective (New York: Pathfinder, 1975). By Catherine A. Evans and Jessie B. Ramey For the current issue of Radical History Review, we wrote about activist Kipp Dawson. Drawing from two…
Claudine Gay testifies before Congress alongside presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images By A.J. Bauer Last month’s congressional hearing on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism” drew comparisons to the Cold War-era House Unamerican Activities Committee…
A photo of my hometown’s 1 Million March 4 Children protest. London Ontario, 2023. Photograph by WG Pearson. By Chris Aino Pihlak It was September 2023, and I was working away at some piece of academic minutiae while a few blocks away fascists…
Stencils reading "Nakba" are defaced with graffiti reading "one" and "more." That is, one more Nakba. Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv, 2023. (Photograph by Adrien Zakar)
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By Esmat Elhalaby Perhaps it's apt that a dying political ideology seeks redemption in a dead discipline. As the Israeli government and public become ever…
Article image courtesy of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, https://justseeds.org/graphic/stop-cop-city/ By Dan Berger * Published in partnership with The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project. On August 29th, the same Georgia grand jury that indicted Donald…
Article image courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov By S. Ani Mukherji I. Unsettling Beauty Where Little Fiery Gizzard Creek enters the Grundy Lakes (Photograph by S. Ani Mukherji) “…a historical materialist views…