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Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR
January 11, 2023I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to grow up in the USSR.
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Remembering Ralph Fasanella, UE organizer and painter of working-class life and struggle
January 4, 2023One of America’s greatest painters of working-class life and struggle passed away 25 years ago.
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U.S. faith leaders, activists demand Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine
December 23, 2022Message to Biden and Congress: “There is nothing glorious about continuing the war.”
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‘RRR’ review: A forceful saga highlighting two epic Indian revolutionaries
December 21, 2022The film RRR brings the tale of two heroes—real-life Indian revolutionaries to the big screen and connects their struggle to the raw history of British colonialism.
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Immerse yourself in the Chinese Cultural Revolution at the Wende Museum
December 14, 2022The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–76) was a period of tremendous social and economic upheaval within China itself that also had deep global reverberations.
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