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May 12, 2024
The Rites of Spring
Jeremiah Kim
May 10, 2024
The Hard Kind of Courage
Blaise Laramee
May 7, 2024
Rafah in the Eyes of God
Jeremiah Kim
April 8, 2024
Why We Must Inherit the Third American Revolution
Jeremiah Kim
April 8, 2024
Leo Gadson, Black Pharaoh of Jazz
Michelle Lyu
April 8, 2024
Science and Freedom: Toward a New Revolutionary Epistemology
Sambarta Chatterjee
April 8, 2024
King Walks Around the World
Blaise Laramee
April 8, 2024
Revolutionary Prophet for the World Future: Martin Luther King Jr.
Nandita Chaturvedi
April 8, 2024
The Makings of a New World
Serafina Harris
April 8, 2024
A New Youth Movement Against War Arises: Where Do We Go From Here?
Samir Butt
April 8, 2024
The Time Is Now for a Peace Industrial Economy
Meghna Chandra
April 8, 2024
Ghosts of Departed Quantities
Blaise Laramee
March 9, 2024
‘Oppenheimer’ and the Price of Uncertainty
Jeremiah Kim
February 28, 2024
Aaron Bushnell at the Gate of Eternity
Jeremiah Kim
February 25, 2024
A Peace Pedagogy
Blaise Laramee
November 29, 2023
Henry Winston: The Living Legacy of a Revolutionary
Anthony Monteiro
November 9, 2023
Science, the Black Proletariat, and Revolution: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Henry Winston’s Strategy for a Black Agenda
Anthony Monteiro
November 9, 2023
Civilization: A Concept for the Future of Humanity
Nuri Yi
November 9, 2023
The Black Worker and World Peace – Black Reconstruction Painting, Part I
Serafina Harris
November 9, 2023
Trotskyism: A Warning to the Young Generation
Emily Dong
November 9, 2023
Finding the Free School
Michelle Lyu
November 9, 2023
Free Jazz Communism, Archie Shepp, Philadelphia, the World
Kathie Jiang
November 9, 2023
The Counter-Revolution of Gerald Horne: Empiricism, Mechanical Materialism, Cultural Nationalism in Service of the Elites
Jahan Choudhry
November 9, 2023
Latinos Belong in the Struggle for Freedom
Edgar Barraza
November 9, 2023
Norman Finkelstein’s Burnt Bridges Leave No Way Forward
Jeremiah Kim
November 7, 2023
Science & Revolution: Celebrating the Life and Mind of Henry Winston
Saturday Free School
October 11, 2023
Young India
Nandita Chaturvedi
September 25, 2023
Truth, Nonviolence, and the Resurrection of the Original People
Saturday Free School
September 25, 2023
Claiming the Gift of Humanity: The Message of India in the Present Context and the Future of Revolutionary Nonviolence
Saturday Free School
September 7, 2023
“Martin Luther King and W.E.B. Du Bois: A Personal Tribute” by Harry Belafonte (1972)
Saturday Free School
June 8, 2023
Paul Robeson: The Artist as Scientist and Freedom Fighter
Anthony Monteiro
May 23, 2023
‘Peace, Democracy, and Social Change in America’ — W.E.B. Du Bois speaks at Chicago Peace Congress, 1951
Saturday Free School
May 22, 2023
Paul Robeson: ‘Unity for Peace’ — Speech at Chicago Peace Congress, 1951
Saturday Free School
May 1, 2023
An Appeal for Peace, 70 Years After the Korean War Armistice
Saturday Free School
March 23, 2023
Reviving Philadelphia’s Progressive Legacy: The Task of Our Generation | Catherine Blunt Interview, Part 5
Saturday Free School
March 3, 2023
Gentrification and ‘Benign Neglect’: The Assault on Black Philadelphia, 1980s-Today | Catherine Blunt Interview, Part 4
Saturday Free School
February 16, 2023
The Black Freedom Movement and Its Distortion by the State, 1960s-80s | Catherine Blunt Interview, Part 3
Saturday Free School
February 8, 2023
Struggling for World Peace and Anti-Apartheid, 1960s-80s | Catherine Blunt Interview, Part 2
Saturday Free School
January 25, 2023
Growing Up: The Black Working Class in North Philadelphia, 1950s-60s | Catherine Blunt Interview, Part 1
Saturday Free School
January 25, 2023
Recovering Philadelphia’s Revolutionary History: An Interview with Catherine Blunt
Saturday Free School
November 25, 2022
Crisis of the Indian Intellectual – Philosophical Assumptions
Meghna Chandra
November 18, 2022
Crisis of the Indian Intellectual – Introduction
Archishman Raju
October 27, 2022
The Crisis of U.S. Society Demands a New Revolutionary Synthesis and a Fourth American Revolution
Anthony Monteiro
September 6, 2022
Our Postmodern Crisis and the Progressive Alternative in the Harlem Renaissance
Kathie Jiang
August 22, 2022
The Philosophical Paradox of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
Jeremiah Kim
July 10, 2022
Latinos and the Struggle for Peace
Edgar Barraza
July 7, 2022
A New Era Needs Intercivilizational Dialogue
Nandita Chaturvedi
May 24, 2022
“The American Blindspot”: Reconstruction According to Eric Foner and W.E.B. Du Bois
Saturday Free School
May 17, 2022
Opposing the Creation of NATO to Wage War with Russia: W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1949 Speech to Congress
Saturday Free School
May 13, 2022
The Korean War: A United People’s War Against Imperialism
Saturday Free School
March 27, 2022
Why Vietnamese Americans Must Abandon the Refugee Identity
Saturday Free School
March 18, 2022
America’s Essence: Winston, King and Our Democratic Struggle for Peace
Saturday Free School
November 17, 2021
Defending and Building Positive Peace: The Legacy of Romesh Chandra
Purba Chatterjee
October 2, 2021
Paul Robeson: American Patriot Against American Empire
Jeremiah Kim
September 17, 2021
The Revolutionary Science of W.E.B Du Bois and D. D. Kosambi
Archishman Raju
September 10, 2021
Deng Xiaoping, Saving the Party and New China
Jahan Choudhry
September 3, 2021
What the Cultural Revolution Teaches Us about China—And America Today
Emily Dong
August 20, 2021
For World Peace and the Right to Self-Determination: Afghanistan at Bandung 1955
Saturday Free School
August 13, 2021
A Historical Perspective of India-China Relations: The Hope for Modern Times
Purba Chatterjee
August 7, 2021
The Chinese Peasant and the Black Worker: ‘Red Star Over China’ and ‘Black Reconstruction in America’
Saturday Free School
July 9, 2021
Ancient Relations Between China and India
Saturday Free School
June 25, 2021
Korea, Afro-America, and Our Common Inheritance of Culture
Nuri Yi
June 18, 2021
Philadelphia: The Gentrification of Progressive Politics
Michelle Lyu
June 4, 2021
Bangladesh, China, and America: A Shared Dream for Freedom and Democracy
Emily Dong
May 14, 2021
Restoring the Legacy of the Non-Aligned Movement
Saturday Free School
May 8, 2021
Reflections on the Liberation War in the 50th Year of Bangladesh
Saturday Free School
April 19, 2021
Sheikh Mujibur’s Last Address to his People
Purba Chatterjee
March 29, 2021
The Human Potential of American Youth, and its Deliberate Waste
Serafina Harris
February 26, 2021
Afro-America and China In Battle for Peace
Saturday Free School
February 19, 2021
“Mourning Dr. Du Bois” by Bing Xin
Saturday Free School
February 19, 2021
Defining Fascism: W.E.B. Du Bois vs. the Anti-Trump Consensus
Jeremiah Kim
February 12, 2021
Becoming Asian in America
Michelle Lyu
February 5, 2021
Redefining Our Manhood through James Baldwin and the Black Freedom Movement
Saturday Free School
January 23, 2021
What Happened in the American Elections?
Archishman Raju
January 16, 2021
The New Class War: Populism, Political Realignment, and the Professional-Managerial Class
Saturday Free School
January 1, 2021
V.I. Lenin and W.E.B. Du Bois: Class Struggle and Civilization
Anthony Monteiro
December 11, 2020
Principle of Humanity and the Struggle for Unity
Nandita Chaturvedi
December 4, 2020
Donald Trump’s Anti-War Movement
Jeremiah Kim
November 28, 2020
A New Communism: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Russia and America
Saturday Free School
November 6, 2020
Interview with E. S. Reddy: Struggle Against the Color Line
Saturday Free School
October 16, 2020
The Bourgeoisification of Negro Intellectuals and Other Problems of the 21st Century
Anthony Monteiro
October 13, 2020
Part 6: Peace Mission, the Uptown Theater, and the Unity Community (1990s – 2020) | Interview with Alfie Pollitt
Michelle Lyu
October 13, 2020
Part 5: Where Do We Go From Here: The Ouch Band, Some of This and Some of That (1982-1990s) | Interview with Alfie Pollitt
Michelle Lyu
October 10, 2020
Part 4: Livin’ Out of a Suitcase (1974-1981) | Interview with Alfie Pollitt
Michelle Lyu
October 10, 2020
Part 3: Temple #12, The Top of the Clock (1969-1974) | Interview with Alfie Pollitt
Michelle Lyu
October 10, 2020
Part 2: Spiritual Pilgrimage to Philadelphia (1960s) | Interview with Alfie Pollitt
Michelle Lyu
October 10, 2020
Part 1: Bryn Mawr and The Beginnings (1943-1960s) | Interview with Alfie Pollitt
Michelle Lyu
October 9, 2020
The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
Anthony Monteiro
October 9, 2020
‘A Musical Journey Through the Byways of Life’: An Interview with Alfie Pollitt
Michelle Lyu
October 2, 2020
Mahatma Gandhi was not a racist, but the attacks on him are
Meghna Chandra
September 25, 2020
A Light that Never Was: The failings of Western liberal democracy
Saturday Free School
September 18, 2020
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: A failed comparison and a deeply flawed book
Archishman Raju
September 11, 2020
Ho Chi Minh and his relevance today: the legacy of Black-Vietnamese friendship and the war
Saturday Free School
September 4, 2020
The Strange Gospel of ‘White Fragility’
Jeremiah Kim
August 28, 2020
The Movement in Lorraine Hansberry’s Eyes
Saturday Free School
August 13, 2020
“A people armed with just ideas”: Fidel and the Battle of Ideas
Saturday Free School
July 21, 2020
Sufism, Civilization and Revolutionary Love
Jahan Choudhry
July 21, 2020
Bernie Sanders and the Color-Line
Saturday Free School
July 21, 2020
Toward Another America: The Moral Authority of the Black Freedom Struggle
Jeremiah Kim
July 21, 2020
An Education for a New Human Being
Saturday Free School
July 21, 2020
For the Heart and Humanity – John Coltrane
Serafina Harris
July 21, 2020
Yugoslavia and the Riddle of Eastern Europe
Saturday Free School
July 21, 2020
A New Religion
Emily Dong
May 29, 2020
THE MEANING OF INDIA
Saturday Free School
May 22, 2020
Bill Gates, Coronavirus & the Midnight of Western Supremacy
Saturday Free School
May 19, 2020
“No to war of any kind”, A tribute to Lorraine Hansberry, Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X
Saturday Free School
May 5, 2020
“Every bombed village is my home town”
Saturday Free School
May 5, 2020
The path which led me to Leninism
Saturday Free School
May 5, 2020
A Challenge to Artists
Saturday Free School
May 5, 2020
Oxford Union Debate
Saturday Free School
May 5, 2020
Birmingham Shall Be Free Some Day
Saturday Free School
May 5, 2020
Sages and Scientists
Saturday Free School
May 5, 2020
A Letter to Americans
Saturday Free School
April 22, 2020
We seek the bread of peace: A tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and V. I. Lenin
Saturday Free School
April 1, 2020
The Crisis of Our Times: Climate, Capitalism, or Western Civilization?
Nuri Yi
April 1, 2020
Our Town by Thornton Wilder; Our Irresponsibility – A Critique
Saturday Free School
April 1, 2020
Black Power and King’s World House
Saturday Free School
April 1, 2020
Completing the World Anti-Colonial Movement: A Task For Our Times
Jahan Choudhry
April 1, 2020
Sorry to Bother You – A White Story in Black Voice
Nandita Chaturvedi
April 1, 2020
A Revolutionary Criteria for Literature: A review of Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie
Meghna Chandra
April 1, 2020
For Young Activists, A Lesson from Nashville
Emily Dong
April 1, 2020
Charles White and the Purpose of Education
Serafina Harris
April 1, 2020
Queerness as Whiteness: Beyond Identity Politics
Michelle Lyu
April 1, 2020
James Baldwin and the White Roots of Anti-Communism
Jeremiah Kim
April 1, 2020
The Collapse of the West and the Struggle for Civilizational Unity
Archishman Raju
January 1, 2020
The Peoples Art: Bauhaus School of Architecture and Paul Robeson
Serafina Harris
January 1, 2020
Aruna Asaf Ali: Building a New Vanguard for Peace
Archishman Raju
January 1, 2020
2016: Crack in the Mirror of White Supremacy
Meghna Chandra
January 1, 2020
The Black Freedom Movement: Progressing Revolutionary Thought
Nandita Chaturvedi
January 1, 2020
Rabindranath Tagore and the West
Saturday Free School
January 1, 2020
I Want to be Chinese
Emily Dong
January 1, 2020
Vietnamese Americans and the Price of Becoming White
Saturday Free School
August 8, 2019
The Struggle for a Positive Peace
Nandita Chaturvedi
August 7, 2019
World Peace Council: Theory and Practice for a Positive Peace
Jahan Choudhry
August 7, 2019
Ho Chi Minh Through the Eyes of Martin Luther King Jr.
Saturday Free School
August 7, 2019
The Peace Movement in India: An Important Legacy
Archishman Raju
May 5, 2019
Civilization That Kills
Saturday Free School
October 15, 2018
Ramaiyya Vastavaiyya by Shailendra
Saturday Free School
October 15, 2018
Raja-Yogi by Amrita Pritam
Saturday Free School
October 15, 2018
Pariksa
Saturday Free School
October 10, 2018
Kabir Dohe
Saturday Free School
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