Howard Fast, who died last week at age 88, was the last of the proletarian writers, a distinction he owed to an unrequited adolescent crush. Today he is best remembered for his novel “Spartacus,” ...

It is a long time now since the avant-garde socialist intelligentsia framed, in more or less rounded form, the aims of the historical struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and since ...

The mixture of brutal concrete facades with antique-style columns was nicknamed ‘Red Dorica’ in the 1920s-1930s - a genuine “revolutionary” style. But where can you find such buildings these days? The ...

On November 2, 1977, closing in on the sixtieth anniversary of the Russian revolution, the French historian Georges Haupt gave a provocative talk at the Fernand Braudel Center in Binghamton, New York.

The economy, the state, the politics of the bourgeoisie and its international relations are completely blighted by a social crisis, characteristic of a prerevolutionary state of society. The chief ...