history
Rescuing the lost history of anti-colonial fighter and Communist W. Alphaeus Hunton
February 16, 2022Hunton, a leading figure in the struggle for African-American equality and against colonialism, was a well-known figure from the 1930s through the 1950s. The silencing of Black communist history, however, has left his life unexamined by...
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Georg Weerth, first poet of the German working class, on his bicentennial
February 16, 2022“Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet...” So wrote Frederick Engels in 1883 on his friend Georg Weerth, who came into the world 200 years ago.
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Historians urge stronger anti-fascist fight, or Biden administration could be next Weimar Republic
February 14, 2022“We are already closer to a fascist coup than we have ever been in our history,” argues historian David Pizzo.
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Kentucky Republicans again aim to ban teaching truth about racism
February 9, 2022The rich and their apologists in politics, the press, and the pulpit have been running the same con for years.
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Collective punishment, indiscriminate shooting: Bloody Sunday in Derry 50 years ago
January 28, 2022On Sunday, January 30, 1972, a British Parachute regiment carried out a massacre of 14 peaceful demonstrators at an anti-internment march in the Catholic district of the Bogside.
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