United States Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/history/united-states/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:29:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 United States Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/history/united-states/ 32 32 22825446 Second-Wave Feminism: Accomplishments and Lessons https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/04/second-wave-feminism-accomplishments-and-lessons/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/04/second-wave-feminism-accomplishments-and-lessons/#respond Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:29:19 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6748 The following article is reprinted from “Against the Current,” no. 211 (March/April 2021)  with kind permission of ATC and Nancy Rosenstock. By Nancy Rosenstock: August 26, 1970 marked the public emergence of second-wave feminism, coming 50 years after the winning of women’s suffrage. The women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and early 1970s had a […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/04/second-wave-feminism-accomplishments-and-lessons/feed/ 0 6748 Two Months That Set a New ‘Normal’ in U.S. Bourgeois Politics https://johnriddell.com/2021/02/05/two-months-that-set-a-new-normal-in-u-s-bourgeois-politics/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/02/05/two-months-that-set-a-new-normal-in-u-s-bourgeois-politics/#respond Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:56:18 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6665 The following text is reprinted with permission from World-Outlook, a significant new voice of revolutionary Marxism in the United States. The many comments submitted on this article, available at World Outlook, are worth checking out. World-Outlook is edited by Argiris Malapanis, Geoff Mirelowitz, and Francisco Picado. By Argiris Malapanis and Geoff Mirelowitz:February 3, 2021—In the […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/02/05/two-months-that-set-a-new-normal-in-u-s-bourgeois-politics/feed/ 0 6665 Key Lessons of Trump’s Failed Insurrection https://johnriddell.com/2021/01/25/key-lessons-of-trumps-failed-insurrection/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/01/25/key-lessons-of-trumps-failed-insurrection/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2021 02:10:31 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6606 A Socialist Analysis Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard write regularly for Australia-based Green Left Weekly. For a related socialist interpretation, see “Radicalism, Bonapartism, and the Aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Elections,” by Geoff Mirelowitz, Argiris Malapanis, and Francisco Picado, on World-Outlook.com. By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard: The most important aspect of the January 6 […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/01/25/key-lessons-of-trumps-failed-insurrection/feed/ 1 6606 The 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/03/the-1970-womens-strike-for-equality/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/03/the-1970-womens-strike-for-equality/#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2020 19:59:11 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6275 How a mass march relaunched women’s struggle for liberation in the US. An interview by Nancy Rosenstock with Ruthann Miller, reposted with permission from Jacobinmag.com. Introduction In August 1970, campaigners for women’s liberation mounted a huge demonstration that recharged feminism in the US. Ruthann Miller, the protest coordinator, was a socialist activist. She talks here […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/03/the-1970-womens-strike-for-equality/feed/ 0 6275 United States: Trump’s Bonaparte Moment https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/12/united-states-trumps-bonaparte-moment/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/12/united-states-trumps-bonaparte-moment/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:44:56 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=6103 By Barry Sheppard: August’s Republican National Convention centred on two interrelated themes. One was the adulation of Donald Trump as the strong leader who can save the country, and who must hold onto power, come what may. The other was the mobilisation of a blatant, racist assault on the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM activists […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/12/united-states-trumps-bonaparte-moment/feed/ 2 6103 The ISO’s Collapse: ‘A Political Assessment’ by Lance Selfa and Paul D’Amato https://johnriddell.com/2019/11/26/the-isos-collapse-a-political-assessment-by-lance-selfa-and-paul-damato/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/11/26/the-isos-collapse-a-political-assessment-by-lance-selfa-and-paul-damato/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:40:58 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5534 Introductory Note by John Riddell: The unexpected dissolution of the U.S. International Socialist Organization in April 2019 has provoked wide concern and debate among socialists. The ISO had long been the largest and most effective revolutionary socialist group in the U.S. Until the last few months before its demise, it was at its peak in […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/11/26/the-isos-collapse-a-political-assessment-by-lance-selfa-and-paul-damato/feed/ 1 5534 How the Russian Revolution Reshaped the U.S. Socialist Movement https://johnriddell.com/2017/11/08/how-the-russian-revolution-reshaped-the-u-s-socialist-movement/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/11/08/how-the-russian-revolution-reshaped-the-u-s-socialist-movement/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2017 12:48:23 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4800 By Todd Chretien. Todd Chretien is a long-time member of the International Socialist Organization, a frequent contributor to SocialistWorker.org and the editor of Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution (Haymarket Books, 2017). Russia has been in the news lately, more than anyone might have expected a year ago, raising concerns over foreign interference in U.S. politics […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/11/08/how-the-russian-revolution-reshaped-the-u-s-socialist-movement/feed/ 0 4800 Defying the Democrats: Marxists and the lost labor party of 1923 https://johnriddell.com/2014/09/10/defying-the-democrats-marxists-and-the-lost-labor-party-of-1923/ https://johnriddell.com/2014/09/10/defying-the-democrats-marxists-and-the-lost-labor-party-of-1923/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:13:11 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=2008 By Eric Blanc (eblanc17 [at] gmail.com). Discussions on how to break working people from the hold of the Democratic Party have acquired a new immediacy as a result of the recent electoral victories of independent working-class candidates in Seattle, Washington, and Lorraine, Ohio, as well as the campaign for Chicago union leader Karen Lewis to […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2014/09/10/defying-the-democrats-marxists-and-the-lost-labor-party-of-1923/feed/ 1 2008 Allende, Cuba, and world socialism, 1970–73 https://johnriddell.com/2013/01/06/allende-cuba-and-world-socialism-1970-73/ https://johnriddell.com/2013/01/06/allende-cuba-and-world-socialism-1970-73/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:17:51 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1390 By John Riddell. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the U.S.-inspired rightist coup in Chile that overthrew the leftist government of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. The coup was a historic disaster for working people in Latin America and globally. Socialists worldwide saw it coming. How did they attempt to counter this danger? […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2013/01/06/allende-cuba-and-world-socialism-1970-73/feed/ 6 1390 What is a united front? Exchange on the U.S. SWP https://johnriddell.com/2012/07/12/what-is-a-united-front-exchange-on-the-u-s-swp/ https://johnriddell.com/2012/07/12/what-is-a-united-front-exchange-on-the-u-s-swp/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:48:36 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1121 Posted here is an exchange between myself and Ernesto, plus a brief rejoinder from me, on the evolution and current course of the U.S. SWP. These comments deal with issues raised in articles and comments at “The SWP Attempts an Outward Turn,” “Causes of a Socialist Collapse,” and Ernesto’s “Letter in Support of the SWP’s […]

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