By Noel Ignatiev In my youth I belonged to a group called the Provisional Organizing Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Party…
Class Struggle
By Noel Ignatiev I am a political person. I spent decades in workers’ rights and community struggles and the…
Race or Class?
By Noel Ignatiev There are those who think that because something is about class it cannot also be about race.…
The End of Capitalism
By Noel Ignatiev A former student sent me a link to an article in The Guardian (U.S. Edition) of July…
Gangs of New York
By Noel Ignatiev How we look at the past reveals a great deal about us in the present. Consider a…
Influence
By Noel Ignatiev The summer following my first year in graduate school at the University, I took a job running…
Passing
By Noel Ignatiev In the summer of 1961 I left the University of Pennsylvania and took a job at a…
Who Lost an American?
by Joel Gilbert, as told to Noel Ignatiev I was born in 1973, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan,…
The Beauty of Language
By Noel Ignatiev “It was the crossover play on the right wing,” Curry’s teammate Andre Iguodala said in recalling the…
In Response to Charleston
By Noel Ignatiev America is the Society of the Spectacle, and, predictably, much of the response to the Charleston shootings…