The problem with Jacobin is basically a problem of editorship. At its best, it does great work. I am real proud of my small part of the history of the CIO podcast they are hosting, for instance. When you have serious historians in charge of...
colonialism
On August 28, 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act received royal assent from King William IV, providing for the gradual emancipation of slavery in the British Empire. Like every other European.
Joe Biden, among other Democrats, have joined Republicans in overturning the DC crime law. Whatever you think of the DC law, this is pure, uncut colonialism. DC voters and politicians.
Hey everyone--remember that the United States is an imperialist power with colonies. One of them is a place called Puerto Rico, which surprised our last president. Well, said colony is now completely without power and has dealt with unbelievable levels of rain due to this...
ProPublica has a typically excellent deep dive on how the long-term debts of Barbados makes it very difficult for that small island nation to fight climate change. With Lagarde on.
On August 3, 1959, dock workers in what is today Guinea-Bissau, but was then Portuguese Guinea, went on strike, leaving up to 50 workers dead. Arguably the most important event.
I guess I am going to be imprisoned for crimes of Critical Race Theory for mentioning this, but it turns out that the crimes of colonialism and the Native dispossession that follows have long tentacles that continue to the present: Kahikina, a Native Hawaiian, had...
One thing that I find fascinating is that for all the talk about western Europe being supposedly more progressive than the U.S., as the Americans get serious about reckoning with.
On December 30, 1900, advisors from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the college run by Booker T. Washington, arrived in Togo to help the German colonialists institute a southern-style cotton regime.
On November 11, 1918, French authorities in Indochina created the first labor code for its rubber plantations there, tying workers to the land in a way that would never have been acceptable in France and instituting a brutal labor regime that would eventually feed the...
On July 31, 1905, Matumbi tribesman in German East Africa (today, mostly Tanzania, or Tanganyika as it was known then) marched on the trading post of Samanga, burning cotton fields.
On May 29, 1935, a strike by mineworkers in Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) to protest taxes levied on them by British colonial administrators was met with murderous violence, with about.