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Radical historian challenges traditional Marxist view of ‘so-called’ American Revolution
August 11, 2020Marxists ranging from Lenin to Ho Chi Minh to CPUSA historian Herbert Aptheker have viewed the American Revolution as a bourgeois-democratic revolution that advanced the cause of liberty, as incomplete and flawed as it was. Gerald Horne says no.
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Virtual march on Livermore Lab caps Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries
August 10, 2020The U.S. lab is devoting nearly 90% of its over-$2 billion budget for 2020-21 to nuclear weapons; only 2% will go to civilian science.
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Connecticut activists take up Hiroshima mayor’s call: “Unite against all threats”
August 6, 2020"Civil society must reject self-centered nationalism and unite against all threats," warned Mayor Kazumi Matsui of Hiroshima.
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Hiroshima survivors hammer Japanese government for not signing anti-nuke treaty
August 6, 2020Manabu Isawa, son of a bombing survivor who recently died, said: “Prime Minister Abe’s actions don’t match his words. Japan apparently sides with the United States."
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Attacks on Margaret Sanger are cover for right wing’s assault on women
August 6, 2020The left must be smart. Who thinks the right will be satisfied now that Sanger's name has been publicly disavowed?
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