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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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‘My Psychedelic Love Story’: A flashback down memory lane to meet Timothy Leary
October 27, 2020Morris’s cinematic sensibility meshes well with Leary’s psychedelic psyche.
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Philadelphia’s MOVE and Black political culture on film at TIFF
October 26, 2020It wouldn’t be incorrect to compare much of what we learn about the history of MOVE to current struggles for social justice.
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The anti-communist history of Communist labor organizers on the waterfront
October 23, 2020Vernon L. Pedersen’s “orthodox” biases steer what would otherwise be a useful and informative study into the murky waters of anti-communism.
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