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Gerald Horne’s new book ‘White Supremacy Confronted’ relates apartheid to Jim Crow
March 26, 2020The scale of "White Supremacy Confronted," though focused on the U.S. and South Africa, is global.
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New collection of biographies recounts post-1956 U.S. Communist history
March 9, 2020Many historians place the CPUSA as in decline, but Pecinovsky corrects the record, showing its on social and economic justice, racial justice, the fight against sexism, and the push for global peace.
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Trump Cop: Law and order are on his terms now
February 21, 2020The fall of the Roman Republic is a cautionary tale for those clinging desperately to the hopes that this American Republic’s democratic experiment will outlast.
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RNC 2020 and the symbols of history: Crowns, Hornets, and Boiler Plugs
February 18, 2020Trump has claimed the crown. We have to unite and fight like hornets against him.
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Civil Rights Movement memories: Marching from Selma to Montgomery in 1965
February 7, 2020The experiences of witnessing Jim Crow in Houston in the mid-fifties, soon after migrating with my parents and sister from Buenos Aires, were forever implanted in my conscience. Doing whatever necessary to help eradicate the U.S....
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