History

Automatic Draft Registration Undoes A Victory Decades In The Making

May 20, 2026 Edward Hasbrouck, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Draft, History, Military Draft, Selective Service, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Young people in the U.S. have won a major unsung victory: Starting in December, they will no longer be required to register or report their addresses for a possible military draft. But Congress has given the agency tasked with “readiness” for a draft a second chance to find a way to sign young men up for a future draft involuntarily and “automatically.” To understand how this victory was won and how young people and their allies can fight the plan for “automatic” registration, we need to look at 45 years of forgotten history of draft registration and resistance during a time when there was no active draft.

Resisting Regime Change In Cuba

May 19, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Consortium News. Educate! Cuba, Economic Blockade, History, Lawfare, Raul Castro, Trump Administration, US Imperialism

Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government has sought to foment regime change in Cuba. In 1961, the C.I.A. orchestrated the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, when C.I.A.-trained Cuban exiles landed at Playa Girón, on Cuba’s southern coast. They were defeated within two days by Cuban military forces. Over the years, the C.I.A. organized hundreds of assassination attempts on the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro and supported myriad acts of terrorism against Cuba. Now, impelled by Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump is moving steadily toward accomplishing regime change in Cuba.

History Suggests Inequality Ends In Catastrophe

May 19, 2026 Jeremy Lent, Resilience. Strategize! Adaptation, Crisis, History, Inequality, social transformation

There may never have been a group that had it so good as the Japanese plutocrats of the 1930s. In that era, the richest one percent of Japanese society captured twenty percent of national income — a third more than the top earners in America command today. Within a decade, however, most of that bounty had vanished. Their share of national income collapsed by more than two-thirds; the value of their estates fell by 98 percent. What happened? Total war, total defeat, and foreign occupation. Mass mobilization forced the state to intervene in industrial production, double income taxes, restrict dividends, and requisition merchant ships.

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal To Hear Evidence On Canada’s Residential School Legacy

May 11, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Canada, History, Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Rights, Montreal, People's Tribunal, Residential Schools

An international people’s tribunal examining Canada’s role in the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous children in residential schools will convene in Montreal later this month, bringing together survivors, legal experts and advocates in what they describe as a push for accountability beyond Canada’s existing reconciliation process. The hearings, organized under the auspices of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, are scheduled for May 25-29 at the Daphne Art Centre in Montreal. The tribunal will hear testimony related to missing Indigenous children, unmarked graves and the long-term impacts of the residential school system on Indigenous communities across Canada.

The World’s First Nonviolent Municipality

May 11, 2026 Stacie Freasier, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Colombia, History, Nonviolence, Nonviolent City

High in the mountains of western Antioquia, Colombia, where the mist settles into the coffee fields each morning and the air smells of wet earth and woodsmoke, exists the rural municipality of Caicedo. Approximately 60 miles from Medellín, Caicedo is home to around 10,000 campesinos, of whom only about 2,000 reside in its small urban center. Something incredible takes place here. The people have chosen peace. Not once, in a moment of hope. But over and over again — through decades of terror, through kidnapping and murder, through grief so deep it could have swallowed them whole. They chose it at the ballot box.

The Revolutionary Spirit Of Iran

April 30, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. Resistance Report Book Review, Chris Hedges, History, Iran, Revolution, Wars and Militarism

The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has completely misread the Iranian people and failed to recognize the deep revolutionary spirit that pervades Iranian culture. Rather than inciting Iranian people against their government, the US-Israeli war on Iran has united the population. Rather than promoting democracy in Iran and empowering the people, US economic punishment and aggression have accomplished the opposite and have made life more difficult for most Iranians. Like Cuba, Iran is being targeted because it will not relinquish its sovereignty.

American ‘Micro-Militarism’

April 30, 2026 Alfred W. McCoy, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! History, Iran, Multipolar World, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

There is mounting historical evidence that America is indeed an empire in steep decline, while President Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran is becoming the sort of micro-military disaster that helped destroy successive empires over the past 2,500 years — from ancient Athens to medieval Portugal to modern Spain, Great Britain, and now the United States. And at the core of every such ill-fated war-making decision lay a problematic leader, often born into wealth and prestige, whose personal inadequacies reflected and ramified the many irrationalities that make imperial decline such a painful process.

May Day: Remember How Immigrants Built The Labor Movement

April 29, 2026 Charlotte White and Julia Wallace, Left Voice. Resist! History, Immigrant Rights, May Day, Strikes

This May Day comes as workers across the country have been fighting Trump’s attacks on the economic stability and basic democratic rights of workers across the country. Some of the worst attacks have been against immigrant communities and those who stand in solidarity with their immigrant neighbors. The fight for immigrant rights cannot be separated from the fight for a strong labor movement in the United States. Since the beginning, immigrants have been foundational to the U.S. labor movement. Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, shaped by upheavals during the 18th century, brought lessons of working-class organization to the United States.

FIFA In The Sun, Soccer In The Shadow

April 26, 2026 Rick Majumdar, Fight Back! News. Educate! boycott, History, Soccer, Sports, Texas, world cup

Soccer is globally celebrated. It is the most consumed sport in the world. At least a billion people tune in to watch the World Cup every four years. Soccer reflects both international and working-class characteristics. Soccer is a reflection of greater contradictions of the world playing out on a football pitch. Most importantly, the primary contradiction that has grasped the world tightly; the contradiction between the countries that dominate by imperialism and those that are subjected to this domination. Yet fans, being fans, have historically risked it all for a brief moment of exuberance. In 2014, Brazilian fans bicycled through the Amazon region to watch the games in the Manaus. In 2022, Argentinian fans sold their houses to go watch Messi play his last tournament in Qatar.

May Day 2026: Why Black Workers Must Mobilize

April 26, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Black Working Class, History, May Day, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

For most of Jay Ozier’s decades as a trade union activist in St. Louis, May Day came and went just like any other workday. A small fundraising breakfast for People’s World here, a few comrades and likeminded fellow workers gathered there—but nothing like the international working-class holiday celebrated in countries all over the world. But this year, that’s changing. Now, there are plans for over a thousand rallies in cities across the country—with many led by organized labor, including dozens of central labor councils, state labor federations, and now even the national AFL-CIO itself signing on.

Postponing The World’s Financial Winter, But For How Long?

April 20, 2026 Michael Hudson, Counter Punch. Educate! Energy, History, Iran, OPEC, Strait of Hormuz, US Imperialism

Announcing that “A whole civilization will die tonight,” Donald Trump threatened on April 7, 2026, to destroy “every bridge in Iran” and “every power plant … burning, exploding, and never to be used again.” His intention to continue committing war crimes is driving the world toward a Financial Winter as devastating as the Great Depression. Iran’s April 8 response called his bluff, laying down the terms for ending the conflict and opening the Strait of Hormuz. Oil-importing countries will need to compel U.S. and Israeli compliance with these terms in order to avoid an economic crisis.

Venezuela’s Social Transformation In The Chávez Era

April 20, 2026 Misión Verdad, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Bolivarian Revolution, History, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela

There are historical processes whose understanding depends, to a large extent, on the ability to preserve and reconstruct the memory of what they meant in everyday life. The period of Hugo Chávez’s government in Venezuela falls into that very category: a stage marked by social transformations that tangibly changed the conditions of access to rights for large sectors of the population. This series starts from that need for review. In a previous article, Misión Verdad addressed the economic dimension of the Bolivarian model.

Teaching In And Against The State

April 18, 2026 Ranita Ray, Red Pepper. Strategize! Education, Fascism, History, Racism, Teachers

Book bans, immigration raids, and efforts to erase Black, migrant, disabled, trans and queer students and their histories are spreading across the US. Public schools have once again been cast into the political spotlight as the Trump administration tries to dismantle the Department of Education altogether. Teachers are beset on all sides, preparing themselves for union backlash, layoffs as a result of teaching Black and queer history, and even immigration sweeps. In this context, headline after headline casts teachers as natural allies with communities under threat.

The Big Idea: Guerrilla Theater

April 14, 2026 J. Patrick Patterson, In These Times. Strategize! Guerilla Theater, History, Protests, Ruling Class

Absurd, ridiculous fun. It’s Abbie Hoffman throwing dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to watch the scramble in 1967. It’s the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army bouncing into “clownarchy” to protest the Iraq War in 2003, confusing authorities and inviting mockery of their repression. It’s the Portland Frog Brigade wearing inflatables outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility to protest raids and deportations. It’s creating irresistible images to cut through the spectacle of modern life.

Jonathan Kozol And The Struggle Against US Apartheid

April 7, 2026 Michael K. Smith, Counter Punch. Strategize! Apartheid, Education, History, Racism, United States

Although bookshelves groan under the weight of tracts about U.S. racism, no one’s writings on the topic are more unsettling than Jonathan Kozol’s. He is among our greatest and most eloquent dissenters. He writes not from studied objectivity but with an impassioned conviction that sears the conscience and haunts the soul. His books, once read, stay with you; his insights, once seen, can never again be unseen. Horrors we once attributed to happenstance or personal failure are revealed by Kozol for what they are: our society’s deliberate punishment of innocent poor people, whose very existence reminds us of moral failures we prefer to imagine do not exist.

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