Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
A Sleepy Interregnum? The Inauthentic Opposition Party of Filibusted Appeasement
Counterpunch, 5-28-2021 The Next Civil War The Trump Republicans are a neofascist party. They sought to subvert and then nullify a presidential election under cult command of an authoritarian racist who encouraged talk of “civil [...]
Why the Trumpenproletarian Myth on the Left?
Counterpunch* 5 -22- 2021 *New title here and new endnote (see below) The wrongheaded but ubiquitous notion that the Republican Amerikaner Trump base is the (um, white) “working-class” drawn to “populism” has been disproven in [...]
Would Anyone Care to Defend American Radicals?
Counterpunch, 5-02-2021 I am told that a leading senior and radical American historian quipped last year that a second Trump administration might have given the American Left a chance to gather together – under armed [...]
Slaves to the Constitution
Counterpunch, 4-23-2021 Slavery lives on in U.S.-American life, crippling “our” supposed grand “democracy” in numerous ways. The massive wealth, income, and health gaps between Black and white Americans and the related persistent segregation and mass [...]