by John Garvey & Noel Ignatiev Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what’s the big deal? America…
Reflections on John Brown
By Noel Ignatiev Russell Banks described John Brown as the one figure in American history all blacks think is a…
Doddering Old Fool Addresses Problems of Antizionism
By Noel Ignatiev The following is from an exchange that took place between June 8 and June 11. There were…
Memorandum of Understanding
By Noel Ignatiev Loren Goldner, coeditor of Insurgent Notes (insurgentnotes.com), and I talked about things that make it difficult for…
Movement Communism
By Noel Ignatiev I recently read an essay by Alain Badiou, “Tunisia and Egypt: The universal Significance of the Popular…
No Moral Justification
Paper presented at the 2nd Haifa Conference for the return of Palestinian refugees and for the Democratic Secular State in Historic…
Catholicism: The New Communism?
By Noel Ignatiev Dear Friends, Last week, as yet another mega-typhoon laid waste to the Philippines, the leaders of 183…
Today Cuba, Tomorrow…
By Noel Ignatiev For some time it has been clear that U.S. attempts to isolate Cuba diplomatically and blockade it…
12 Million Black Voices
By Noel Ignatiev Until World War II, three-quarters of black Americans lived in the South, a “nation within a nation.”…
Appalled
By Noel Ignatiev Yesterday President Obama spoke about the killing of American journalist James Foley, “an act of violence that…