Forty years ago Howard Zinn's landmark A People's History of the United States was first published. We've put together a reading list of classic works by Zinn that embody his commitments to struggle from below and people's history.
An excerpt from Howard Zinn's powerful and still relevant 1968 book, Disobedience and Democracy.
“To take coronavirus seriously is to treat what is normally a perhaps abstract socialist ideal, that a society is only as strong as its most vulnerable members, as a matter of immediate epidemiological fact.”
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.” Watch the video of our online teach-in with Arundhati Roy, hosted by Imani Perry.
The Covid-19 crisis has upended public education around the country. Join three radical education activists in conversation about what this crisis means for public education now and how moving forward we can continue to fight for the schools our students deserve.
