The Many-Sided, Overlapping Meanings of May Day

Paul Street / Truthdig May 1, 2019 The working-class holiday has Marxist and anarchist industrial-era roots, but the significance of May 1 goes deeper than that. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Shocking Parallels Between 1919 and 2019

Arnold R. Isaacs / TomDispatch Apr 17, 2019 Reading about America a century ago offers an eerie sense of decades melting away and past and present blurring together. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

‘Public Safety Is None of Your Business’

Paul Street / Truthdig Mar 20, 2018 And, if we believe what we are being told, neither are corporate welfare, jobs, health insurance, pensions, the environment, tax policy, the distribution of wealth and power or world peace. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Many-Sided, Overlapping Meanings of May Day

Paul Street / Truthdig Apr 29, 2017 The working-class holiday has Marxist and anarchist industrial-era roots, but the significance of May 1 goes deeper than that. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

VIDEO: News of Anonymous’ Online Campaign Against the KKK Takes a Turn (Updated)

Staff / Truthdig Nov 4, 2015 Updated: The "hacktivist" group has disclaimed any participation in the release Sunday and Monday of data regarding the personal information of KKK members. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Lonely American

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jun 29, 2015 Communal activities, from attendance at sporting events to civic organizations, have plummeted. We are isolated and have become hapless victims of corporate propaganda. We must reconnect to resist. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

A Nation of Snitches

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 11, 2015 All totalitarian systems, including our own, rely on informants to keep the people afraid and under control. We will not be free of corporate tyranny until the network of snitches—in the government and on the streets—is banished. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Actor Woody Harrelson Is a Self-Proclaimed Anarchist

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Nov 22, 2014 In a recent interview with USA Today, the 53-year-old "Hunger Games" star explained his somewhat surprising views on government. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Anarchist Cookbook’ Author Wants Book Pulled From Print

Staff / Truthdig Dec 20, 2013 Since this very month in 1969, "The Anarchist Cookbook" has served as must-read material for a vast swath of discontented youth, as well as a source of passing curiosity or sudden alarm for their elders. But now, its author, educator William Powell, wants it to be yanked from the shelves. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Revolutionaries in Our Midst

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 11, 2013 The corporate state's illegitimacy and destruction of privacy and civil liberties are spawning a class of young idealists such as Jeremy Hammond. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

All Hades Breaks Loose in Greece

Staff / Truthdig Feb 13, 2012 On Sunday, after months of economic and political turmoil, Greek citizens fed up with paying for mistakes made by their country's power elite took to the streets by the tens of thousands to signal their disapproval of the austerity measures the government pushed through late that night. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

What the Occupation Owes Anarchists

Staff / Truthdig Dec 22, 2011 As those weary of Occupy Wall Street's insistence on direct democracy grow increasingly critical, Nathan Schneider with The Nation reminds us that it was anarchist principles that attracted and kept so many of its most devoted participants, and which point a way out of the contemporary party politics that have stifled so many voices. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )