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.
As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or tend to…
In February 1927, 175 delegates from across the globe convened in Brussels for the founding Congress of the League Against Imperialism and…
The historian Kim Phillips-Feinās new book is published amid celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence and its truth āself-evident, that…
In 1963, following George Wallaceās January speech demanding āSegregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,ā following the daily sit-ins and marches of the…
In his farewell address of January 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans against the āacquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by…
[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and…
[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and…
A century ago, Britain was rocked by perhaps the most serious episode of class struggle it has ever known. Millions of workers…
Antifascism can be served with a pot of overcooked pasta. On July 25, 1943, after twenty-one years of dictatorship, Benito Mussolini was…
The defeat in the southern state of Kerala of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI (M), in recent elections means…
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