American Revolution
Radical historian challenges traditional Marxist view of ‘so-called’ American Revolution
August 11, 2020Marxists ranging from Lenin to Ho Chi Minh to CPUSA historian Herbert Aptheker have viewed the American Revolution as a bourgeois-democratic revolution that advanced the cause of liberty, as incomplete and flawed as it was. Gerald Horne says no.
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July 4th: Whose Independence Day is it?
July 7, 2020Who really gained their independence on July 4, 1776?
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First martyr of the American Revolution: Former slave Crispus Attucks
July 3, 2019It would take a “second American revolution”—the Civil War—to break the U.S. slaveholder class.
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Langston Hughes: Let America be America again
July 3, 2019Hughes reminds us of the dream of what America could be, but not yet is.
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Taking sides and telling the truth: The hidden history of the Arnautoff mural
July 3, 2019It's a mistake to see the mural as a symbol of colonialism, white supremacy, and oppression. It was painted precisely to fight those evils.
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