“Plants are closed. The tax base is limited. Children are neglected. Slums abound. This is a disaster born of greed,” he declared.

“Might makes right” is the American operating principle across the globe, from Gaza to Venezuela to Minnesota.

We have to study the past to prepare for  our future. By examining campaigns for peace by opposing American wars we are provided with lessons from which we can learn and take courage. In March,1967 a Connecticut man named Harrison Butterworth sailed with six  companions to Vietnam’s Gulf of Tonkin. Their 50-foot ketch was dubbed […]

Project 2025 would suppress workers’ rights in Connecticut and around the nation, and gut the standard of living for our friends and neighbors.

No matter what the surveys and studies show, the best way to judge workers’ well-being is to watch what they do.

Even though historian, professor and activist Howard Zinn died in 2010, I held a séance to ask him about today’s political environment.

I visited my father’s grave at the veterans cemetery in Windsor the other day. He had been in the Army Air Corps during the second world war.

Mary Townsend Seymour, Connecticut state organizer for the Anti Lynching Crusaders in the 1920s, would be pleased to see the recent signing of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act by President Joe Biden.

Some guys just don’t know when they’re not wanted. Take Captain John Mason, a founder of Hartford. He is now known as an Indian killer by people who have  learned the truth about the 1637 massacre in Mystic, Connecticut of 500 Pequot men, women, children, and elders.

As Juneteenth approaches, we are experiencing a furious attack on “critical race theory.” Instead of marking the long, unfinished struggle for Black freedom, today’s slavery apologists think they have found another way to erase the sins of the past.

Mark Twain wouldn’t be caught dead at Guantanamo. This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first Iraq bombing by U.S. forces. There are many lasting consequences of that attack; one is the Guantanamo prison. February is also the anniversary of Samuel Clemens’ first use of the pen name “Mark Twain.” Yes, there’s a connection.

Protests against police brutality still roar across the nation from the front page to cable news. But if we put an ear to the ground, we can also hear the network of activity rising in reaction to systemic racism and violence. It’s known as mutual aid, and it has its roots in the earliest history of Connecticut.

As the statues of Confederate criminals are being toppled around the country, and as other symbols of the “Lost Cause” follow suit, let’s look at Hartford. In general, Connecticut played a significant — even heroic —  role in the Civil War. At least 5,000 young soldiers died of battle wounds or disease, and they knew […]

Last Saturday, two large #Black Lives Matter marches met in Hartford –one from the south end and one from the north. I was struck by another civil rights event in the city, 53 years earlier. How much have we really changed?