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New Year’s Eve reminiscing with lifelong communist Mary Gosman Scarborough
August 6, 2019Some of us were ready to die for our principles—some of us did. It is not so long ago. Our tree is standing now with fallen branches.
Read moreIndigenous youth fight to replace Columbus Day in Chicago
August 2, 201920-year-old Anthony Tamez-Pochel wants to educate the public on the widespread indigenous genocide enacted by colonizers like Columbus.
Read moreTelevision and Tito in new exhibitions at the Wende Museum
August 2, 2019I remember thinking, on my forays into Eastern European socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, that politics aside, most people’s lives ambled along pretty uneventfully. The Wende exhibition confirms this impression.
Read moreCuba celebrates the rebellion that triggered a revolution
July 26, 2019At his trial, a young lawyer by the name of Fidel Castro said: "History will absolve me!"
Read moreThe legacy of the militant workers of 1919 lives on
July 25, 2019The final of a 3-part series on the strike wave of 1919.
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