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  • To Be a Revolutionary Social Worker, or to be a Radical Worker, that is the Question

    To Be a Revolutionary Social Worker, or to be a Radical Worker, that is the Question

    The dichotomy between the social worker as a nine-to-five state agent and five-nine activist is a crucial one. The question can be summarised as: is there space, willingness and scope within social work to engage with broader structural issues that affect the lives of the people we work with? I spent an hour with the […]

  • Law, Not Crime, Has Come From South of the Border

    Not so much criminals as the foundations of the rule of law — that is what has infiltrated the United States from Latin America. That seems to be a major thread running through Greg Grandin’s wonderful new history of the hemisphere, America, América: A New History of the New World. It’s a book you can dive back […]

  • Democracy or Plutocracy?

    Democracy or Plutocracy?

    Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at its founding, was somewhat more democratic than its contemporaries.  In the […]

  • Philadelphia and the Darkside of Liberty

    Philadelphia and the Darkside of Liberty

    This planned investigation, titled Philadelphia and The Darkside of Liberty, is a deliberate examination into the cultural, economic, and sociopolitical foundations which undergirded America’s early colony and its newly birthed land of liberty’s class-stratified slave society – combined with a closer look at the contradictions which laid within the notions and/or paradoxes of early American equality, […]

  • “What Did You Learn in School Today?”

    “What Did You Learn in School Today?”

    circa 1830: A slave auction in America. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images) Through the centuries, the Republic that eventuated in North America has maintained a maximum of chutzpah and minimum of awareness in forging a creation myth that sees slavery and dispossession not as foundational but as inimical to the nation now known as the United […]

  • Unbecoming American: The Nihilists at Prayer

    Unbecoming American: The Nihilists at Prayer

    The Democratic-Republicans at prayer Those who may recall, if only vaguely, the early chapters of their secondary school history books, may recognize- if not remember- that the original name of the “party of Jefferson” was the Democratic-Republicans. In the first years of the American Empire, the government was in the hands of the Federalist Party, […]

  • How a Battle between Pirates and the British Navy off the Coast of West Africa Triggered the Spread of Chattel Slavery and Changed the Course of History for the United States and the World

    How a Battle between Pirates and the British Navy off the Coast of West Africa Triggered the Spread of Chattel Slavery and Changed the Course of History for the United States and the World

    An excerpt from a new book, Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution, by historian Angela C. Sutton shows how a pivotal battle between the British navy and a notorious pirate crew, led by “Black Bart” Roberts, cleared the way for an explosion of the […]

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