What’s more, they argued, activists could use Jackson’s rhetoric and his access to the media to build “grassroots” struggles, like the movement against apartheid in South Africa. . The 1984 Jackson campaign took about 21 percent of the votes in Democratic primaries as well as several..…

THE REVOLUTIONS and mass protests that spread across North Africa and the Middle East are, at their core, democratic, secular, and (largely, though not exclusively) peaceful. ..…

the majority leaderships of the socialist parties, supported the war efforts of their capitalist ruling classes, thus bringing about the collapse of the Socialist or Second International. ..…