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How Zohran Mamdani’s Rap Career Taught Him to Campaign as a Socialist
The arts have a role in the future of American socialism and a slate of candidates backed by the New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America is demonstrating what music and culture can do for the movement.
Op-Ed: Every Cop is a Criminal. All the Sinners Are Saints
In the eyes of the state, any violence is permissible in order to maintain control. The law is the…
I refused to see him die. I did not look at the newspapers in bodegas or on Facebook, or…
Frank Sinatra, Woody Guthrie, Arthur Miller & the Reds on the Brooklyn Waterfront
An excerpt from “Bernie’s Brooklyn: How Growing Up In The New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders’ Politics” by Theodore Hamm.
Reopening The Economy Will Unleash Predatory Capital
And so we begin our erotic dance across the six feet that has come between us. Doing a strip-tease…
Frances Was Golden: Legendary Activist and Literary Agent Leaves an Inspiring Legacy
Frances Goldin, a legendary Lower East Side activist, trailblazing leftist literary agent and good friend to The Indypendent died…
‘The Book of Old Ladies’ Gives Them Their Due
“Older women are almost never the ones whose story matters,” Ruth O. Saxton writes in the Introduction to The…
Joe Allen’s ‘Package King’ Delivers a Modern History of the Essential Worker
On May 1, workers at Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target and FedEx protested for better health and safety…
Social Isolation: 6 Classic Songs of Love and Struggle (and Rage) to Rediscover
Life under quarantine can be dreary. But great music can lift us up, help us feel better connected to…