by Curtis Price The election of Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama December 12th sent shock waves through the political establishment. To put Jones’s victory in perspective, the last time a Democrat won a Senate race in Alabama was in 1992. For many in the orbit of the Democratic Party, the Alabama election signaled a shift […]
Noel Ignatiev
“Hard Crackers, Come Again No More”
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with two editors from Hard Crackers, Noel Ignatiev and James Murray. Hard Crackers is a periodical founded in 2016 that deals with race from a perspective that has deeply informed my own. It grew out of discussions among people who had been involved with Race Traitor, a journal that ran from 1993 […]
Coming to America
I was 12 years old when I first watched the movie Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy, about a pampered African prince who travels to Queens, New York to look for a wife that he can respect, admire and fall in love with. He and Semmi, loyal servant and sidekick, rent a shoddy apartment in […]
The Revolutionary Moment
by Noel Ignatiev What brings the revolutionary moment? I am not referring to the political struggle that takes place within every mass movement—unions or workers’ councils, soviets or provisional government, abolition or free-soil, black power or civil rights, etc.—but the moment when subordinated individuals whom no exhortation, not even free beer, can lure out of […]
Rainbow Coalition or Class War?
by Noel Ignatiev In 1892 Thomas E. Watson ran for Congress on the People’s Party ticket (also known as the Populist Party) in Georgia’s tenth district. Watson himself was a native Georgian, son of a Confederate veteran. He had served in the State Legislature since 1882, and had been elected to Congress in 1890 as […]
Preach deliverance to the captives
by Noel Ignatiev “Thirteenth-Amendment” marches are planned for August 19th in various cities. They are sponsored by a list of notable figures; it would not surprise me to see Bernie Sanders’ or Elizabeth Warren’s name among them. Their goal is a Constitutional Amendment to abrogate the “exception clause” in the 13th Amendment that allows slavery […]