The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Araby: A Road Movie Driven By Economic Necessity, Not Wanderlust

A new film follows a working-class everyman through the margins of Brazilian capitalism.

Michael Atkinson

Feature

What We Mean When We Say Abolish ICE

Undocumented communities are demanding an end to devastating detentions, deportation and incarceration—not the transfer of such policies to a different agency.

Sarah Lazare

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Emma Goldman: A New Declaration of Independence

In an essay published in July 1909 in Mother Earth, Goldman—a lifelong radical—reminds readers that all humans were created equal.

Emma Goldman

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Eugene Debs: The Mission of Socialism is Wide as the World

In an Independence Day speech in 1901, socialist leader Eugene Debs declared: "I like the 4th of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution. On this day we reaffirm the ultimate triumph of Socialism. It is coming as certain as I stand in your presence."

Eugene Debs

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As We Celebrate “Independence,” Remember That the U.S. Left Its Colony Puerto Rico to Die

The disastrous impacts of Hurricane Maria were made by inequalities of race, income and access to U.S. political power.

Basav Sen

Culture

Sorry To Bother You Is the Anti-Capitalist Black Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For

Boots Riley’s new film shows how black liberation and labor politics are enmeshed. And it’s funny.

Lauren Michele Jackson

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Calls to Abolish ICE Were Everywhere at the Massive March Against Immigrant Family Detention

As tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend, many marchers joined the growing demand to defund and dismantle ICE.

Grace Dixon

Labor

A Nationwide Campaign to Take Back Cities From the Corporations That Rule Them

Bryce Covert

Feature

The Left Just Won Big in Mexico

Andrés Manuel López Obrador won on a promise to reverse the disastrous policies of privatization and rampant corruption that have dominated Mexican politics for decades.

Jeff Abbott