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Newly revealed documents show Nixon, Kissinger plotted Allende overthrow from day one
November 17, 2020Almost from the very minute Salvador Allende took office in Chile in November 1970, Nixon and top U.S. officials were scared of his example and his impact—and determined to oust him.
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New movie musical about 1919 Canadian general strike takes timely ‘Stand!’
November 16, 2020More than a century later, Winnipeg's 1919 General Strike gets the big screen treatment.
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Book preview: Gus Hall and the Communist campus tour of 1962
November 13, 2020After over a decade of political repression, Communists seemed poised to make a comeback.
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Chile voted against fascism; left strives for Allende’s wish of a ‘people’s constitution’
November 2, 2020“We began to dig the grave of the Pinochet-era constitution and the market economy,” one report said.
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On anniversary of Great Depression, 25 million collecting unemployment
October 29, 2020Nine decades after the first Great Depression started, we are now in the midst of another, with a president who has no plan to get us out of it.
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