ZNetwork focuses on vision and strategy for a better world but it also publishes content on history that is relevant to vision and strategy or that provides exceptional summaries and interesting viewpoints on what can be deemed important to the history of left politics.
It is often said that generals are ready to fight the last war. In other words, after every war, the military evaluates…
āWhat, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other…
This year and every year, we are reminded that the great liberation of Black people on Juneteenth 1865 is a call towards…
The deeper we explore humanityās past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the modern…
Cuba has been under a U.S. trade embargo since the Eisenhower administration, although it was President John F. Kennedy who implemented a…
LONDONāIn the early 17th century, deep within the palm forests of northeastern Brazil, a group of people escaped slavery and founded an…
The images that have emerged from Gaza reveal the anatomy of a desolate landscape that defies human comprehension. Nothing can prepare the…
In September 1507 the Portuguese conquistador Afonso de Albuquerque sailed his small fleet to a point off the coast of Hormuz Island,…
Following public remarks by former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael Murphy, a political storm erupted across both the Bosniak political…
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the onset of the civil war and revolution in Spain. In this essay I suggest…
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