InfluenceWatch Podcast #398: The Mullahs’ Friends in America
As we speak—it’s February 25th as we record, so commentary on the current situation may be out of date when you hear this—a naval armada of two fleet carriers and…
Communist Party USA
On this Day: Truman announces Stalin has the bomb
What we now know is that Soviet spies, some of them American communists, helped Stalin steal our atomic secrets.
Animal Farm turns 80: Remember the Communist Party USA?
A British socialist, Orwell began writing his takedown of Soviet communism while Stalin was still a wartime ally of Great Britain.
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: The Old Left and the Reds
American labor radicalism has come a long way from Soviet agents in the Congress of Industrial Organizations through the UAW-funded Students for a Democratic Society to today’s SEIU purple-shirted demonstrators…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: Labor and the New Left
The collapse of American Communism was not the end of American leftist radicalism, and the labor union movement would negotiate a complex dance with the “New Left” from its beginning…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: The Rise of the SEIU
Among the many problems afflicting Big Labor as the Long Decline began was organizing; namely turning workers into dues-paying union members, especially in the growing service industries and the historically…
A History of Everything Leftist Unionism: Labor’s New Coalition
American labor radicalism has come a long way from Soviet agents in the Congress of Industrial Organizations through the UAW-funded Students for a Democratic Society to today’s SEIU purple-shirted demonstrators…
Beware Extremists in Green Hats at the Democratic National Convention
Scores of radical groups are promising to “March on the DNC.” While the protesters’ ancillary demands span the full “Everything Leftism” spectrum, the overriding motivation is animosity toward “apartheid Israel”…
The Unspoken Cause of “California Disease”
Theories of demographic change driving political change are overstated. California is often pointed to as an example, but California was a progressive state, not a red state. Using these theories…
The Mainstreaming of Marxism in Unions
For decades, Marxism has has a complicated relationship with labor unions in the United States, with some unions leaning toward communism while other unions were unapologetically anti-Communist. However, since the…