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Old-time white supremacists would love McConnell’s arguments against voting rights
August 24, 2021It's the same old "states' rights" smokescreen they used against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which Congress passed to overturn Southern Jim Crow laws.
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The time Rich Trumka brought 1,500 miners to Greenwich, Conn.
August 24, 2021When AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka passed away recently, it brought back memories of our first encounter in Connecticut in 1989.
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Organizing is a necessity: A political history of the Hamilton Unemployed Union
August 24, 2021In the summer of 1981, Canada’s economy was in a recession, with unemployment hitting 11%. It didn't seem like the best time to try and organizer workers.
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LGBTQ activists hold Pride marches in Poland, defying right-wing attacks
August 23, 2021Polish President Andrzej Duda declared during the last election that “LGBT is not people—it’s an ideology which is worse than communism."
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Red lamb, black falcon: Balkanization and the capitalization of Croatia
August 23, 2021Rebecca West’s monumental reckoning and sophisticated exploration of these tensions in what was then Yugoslavia in the time leading up to World War II is titled Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
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