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The Socialist Vision for Sports, Part One: Early Labor Struggles

My writing background is in soccer. I started out blogging as a teenager, and managed to make it my job for a few years. Growing up, my mother would half-joke that our family’s religion was “fundamentalist athlete,”…

The Prole Thanks Its Supporters

It is with deep gratitude that The Prole extends its thanks to the following patrons:

Brandon Thornburg

Mark Yesilevskiy

Jeffrey Freiberg

Welcome To The Prole

This is the Prole. Welcome.

The Prole is a reader-funded online publication dedicated to featuring a diverse mix of writers and non-writers on the leftist or socialist end of the political spectrum. It is interested in the thoughts and struggles of professional…

They Will Take It All

It was reported on Tuesday that congressional Republicans have set their sights on rolling back the Endangered Species Act, because of course they have.

The Means of Production

Below is the text of a presentation I gave as part of a “teach-in” event hosted by the Penn State chapter of Young Democratic Socialists.

Human beings need things to live. We need shelter to keep us dry, clothes to keep us warm, food that we can turn into…

Destroy Property

In 1880, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad established the Baltimore and Ohio Employees’ Relief Association. It provided coverage for illness, on-the-job accidents and death. In 1884, the B&O offered a pension paying up to 35 percent of pay to workers 65 and older with at least 10 years of service.

No More Clintons

If you’ve been paying attention to some of the liberal-leaning political sites lately, you may have noticed an uptick in coverage of Chelsea Clinton. The one-time first daughter has been garnering an impressive amount of press for a former President’s child who’s not, say, George W. or Jeb Bush.

The Only Path Is Left

The Democratic Party is in disarray. In 2008, Barack Obama came into the White House with a commanding mandate: more popular votes than any Presidential candidate in history, a majority in the Senate, a majority in the House of Representatives and control of 27 state legislatures.

Christians For Trump

On Saturday, President Trump delivered the commencement address for Liberty University, the fundamentalist Baptist school founded by Jerry Falwell in 1971, to rapturous applause.

It would seem ridiculous, to an outside observer, to see millions of Christians so…