Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Purple Haze: Seventeen Takes on the Mid-Terms
The Paul Street Report, 11.14.2022 It was so nice NOT to be writing about contemporary United States politics – an ugly topic, to say the least – last week. I will be making more and more [...]
When Connie Comes Marching Home Again: A World War II Story
CounterPunch, 11.15.2022 Last Tuesday, November 8, was the 80th anniversary of my 23-year-old Army corporal Uncle Connie’s uncelebrated and at first officially unacknowledged death on the opening day of a massive United States-British invasion of [...]
Yes, the Republicans’ Working-Class Pretense is a Sick Joke But Voting Won’t Fix This Mess
The Paul Street Report, 11.3.2022 Some Workers’ Party Three cheers for Terri Gerstein, a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the Economic Policy Institute. She has made it onto The New [...]
Revolutionary Marxism vs. Chomsky: Reflections on a Recent Interview
CounterPunch, 10.31.2022 Recently The Nation published an interview with the great left intellectual Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian that first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Below I write up some critical reflections expanded from my notes in the margins of my print-off of [...]