Tom Hayden on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Tom Hayden on Mark Rudd

2009-05-08T08:30:18+00:00

Forty years after he helped destroy SDS, Mark Rudd condemns his role in Weatherman as “the greatest single mistake of my life … a historical crime.” How did it happen and what did it mean? Why did peaceful protest give way to violent resistance? What lessons are to be learned from the failure to spurn the seductions of charismatic cults?

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Tom Hayden Strikes Back

2008-04-30T08:27:00+00:00

Chris Hedges is wrong. The left hasn’t lost its nerve, it has found a voice capable of rallying millions. Progressives shouldn’t turn their noses up at that kind of movement just because it isn’t perfect.

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A Top Cuban Leader Thinks Out Loud

2006-08-30T01:52:00+00:00

Veteran social activist Tom Hayden interviews Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon.

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Tom Hayden: Things Come ‘Round in Mideast

2006-07-18T23:10:00+00:00

The veteran social activist, drawing upon his own rude political awakening to the realities of Israeli and Middle East politics during the 1980s, warns that the Israel lobby in the U.S. aims to roll back the clock and change the map of the region and that its neoconservative supporters will probably try to use the current Middle East crisis to ignite a larger war against Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran.

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Tom Hayden: Mexico’s Presidential Front-Runner May Roil U.S. Conservatives

2006-06-26T16:59:00+00:00

Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is waging a progressive populist campaign for his country’s presidency, has some plans sure to incense U.S. conservatives in border states: redrafting the free-trade aspects of NAFTA that force Mexicans to emigrate northward; turning every Mexican consulate in the U.S. into a legal aid center to defend immigrant rights; and vocal opposition to the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Tom Hayden: Who Are You Calling an Immigrant?

2006-05-03T02:23:00+00:00

The fundamental issue underlying the attitudes of the May Day protestors is that “either the Mexicans (and other Latinos) are immigrants to a country called the United States or the U.S. is a Machiavellian power that denies occupying one-half of Mexico for 156 years.”

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Tom Hayden: Iraq—Beyond the Horizon, the Storm

2006-04-25T08:03:00+00:00

The veteran social activist warns that an increasingly mainstream anti-war movement can become unwieldy, and prone to loss of focus: “We no longer are a huddling minority…. We are immersed in the gradual soul-searching currents of the mainstream, where loss of direction is a constant risk.”

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Tom Hayden’s New Port Huron Statement

2006-04-11T05:50:00+00:00

The veteran social activist writes a new preface to the manifesto that helped shape a generation’s views on racial equality, participatory democracy and the military industrial complex.

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Tom Hayden: Revolution, Protest and America

2006-04-09T20:02:00+00:00

The social and political activist discusses the war in Iraq, U.S.-Cuba relations, and America’s war on drugs. (translated from a Cuban newspaper)

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