Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
50 years ago today US troops massacred antiwar protesters at Kent State.
“My God, they’re killing us”: On May 4, 1970, heavily armed National Guard soldiers used live ammunition to slaughter unarmed students on an American university campus who were protesting against the US invasion of Cambodia. [...]
Coronavirus Capitalism and “Exceptional” America
Counterpunch, April 29, 2020 As the global coronavirus public health and economic crisis of 2020 approaches the international workers’ day May 1st, let us consider 23 ways in which it is a crisis of and [...]
May Day, Mayday!
Counterpunch, April 24, 2020 The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, [...]
Danger Clown and the Return to American Normalcy
Counterpunch, April 17, 2020 Recently in an online urban studies discussion, a young white man expressed his desire for his fellow Chicagoans and Americans more generally to get over all this COVID-19 trauma and “return [...]