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Strike wave 1919: The radical forerunners of the CPUSA
May 17, 2019The Bolshevik Revolution inspired workers all over the world, including the United States.
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65 years after Brown vs. Board: What happened to multicultural education?
May 17, 2019How much progress have we made in getting racism out of our schools since Brown vs. Board?
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Lessons from the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
May 16, 2019Though violently put down by the Mounties, Canadian workers proved that society could function without bosses.
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Nazi biscuits: German cookie heiress has no guilt about using slave labor
May 16, 2019"That was before my time," Verena Bahlsen said, claiming her family's company treated slave laborer well and paid them appropriately.
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The Communist Party in the ’30s: The Depression and the great upsurge
May 14, 2019When the Depression struck, Herbert Hoover and the business press said to wait for economic adjustment. But unemployed and hungry people couldn't wait.
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