Author: Vince Copeland

Labor and strikes

When the auto workers went on strike in 1970: Revolutionary implications of the GM strike

September 17, 2023 Vince Copeland
 The last major auto strike in the U.S. started on September 15, 1970, when 400,000 workers at 145 factories walked off the job at GM — then the largest corporation in the world — […]
Capitalism and Marxism

Lenin: Thinker, fighter

April 22, 2023 Vince Copeland
V.I. Lenin was born on this day, April 22, in 1870. Struggle-La Lucha presents this brief biography written by Vince Copeland, originally published in 1989, on the 65th anniversary of Lenin’s death. George Plekhanov did […]
Imperialism and global politics

World War II: U.S. expanded, and so, Pearl Harbor

December 6, 2021 Vince Copeland
Dec. 7, 2021, marks the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i. The anniversary is being used to ramp up propaganda for the current U.S. military buildup […]
Lenin

Lenin: Thinker, fighter

April 21, 2020 Vince Copeland
George Plekhanov did not have Lenin in mind when he wrote his remarkable essay on “The Role of the Individual in History.” But the following paragraphs describe Lenin more than anybody else you can think […]
Lenin

Lenin on Tolstoy

April 21, 2020 Vince Copeland
Written in 1990 and first published in the Summer 1993 issue (#18) of Liberation and Marxism magazine. A new book on the Russian Revolution by the professional anti-communist Richard Pipes, “History of the Russian Revolution” […]
History

The unfinished revolution

September 30, 2019 Vince Copeland
An introduction written by Vince Copeland in 1974 to “A Voice from Harper’s Ferry” by Osborne P. Anderson, a former enslaved Black man, who wrote a firsthand account in 1861 about the raid on Harpers […]