Resisting the Seduction of Racial Liberalism: Abolitionist Lessons in Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right
Photos from the Hartford January 23rd 2026 Abolish ICE Demonstration
Photo Credits: Kenta Osada
CT DSA Socialists in Office Call To Abolish ICE
The murder of Renee Good by ICE is tragically yet another instance of the brutal violence that ICE is inflicting on people–citizens or not–all over the country. She was the latest among at least 32 people killed by ICE, in just over a year of the Trump administration’s ethnic cleansing…
Biometrics: A Backdoor for Cops. Here’s How to Lock It
Telling Local People’s History: An Interview With Hartford Activist Steve Thornton
Andy PiascikAuthorBuy Books by Andy Piascik and Steve Thornton from here Shoeleather History Bookshop Bookshop Steve Thornton has been an activist in Hartford since moving there in the 1970’s after graduating from the University of Connecticut. He worked for many years for the Hartford-based health care workers union, New England…
Garnet Oak Poetry
Iron Currents Despite a lack of clouds in sight,A bolt of lightning cracks the sky.Collapsing buildings push the airThrough microphones and radio towers.I feel the wind from in my shop,Returning to familiar ground.On every bar of steel I craft,My perspiration leaves a glare.They moisten hands that forge the sheetsAnother rivets…