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‘Soundtrack to a Coup D’État’ recounts the assassination of Patrice Lumumba
December 20, 2024Many progressives consider the assassination of the first Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba as among the earliest and certainly best known of the many regime change operations carried out by the U.S. empire.
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The death of the Soviet Union: Our Moscow correspondent reports in 1991
December 20, 2024On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the red hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. The next day, Dec. 26, the USSR...
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‘Cold War: A Love Story’: Novel takes us to 1960s-’70s revolutionary hotspots
December 19, 2024The author is especially effective in communicating the nature of his growing political commitment.
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1951: Truman launches propaganda campaign to distract from ‘We Charge Genocide’ petition
December 18, 2024As William L. Patterson and Paul Robeson were about to expose the crimes of the U.S. government against Black Americans, the Truman administration lied, telling the world that Black life was great in America.
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Biden: Cries of workers burning in 1911 fire heard in today’s struggles
December 17, 2024Social conscience of Francis Perkins caught fire too, resulting in New Deal and underlying struggles of today.
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