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‘Fear of a Socialist America’: Research on Black radicals featured at historians conference
April 24, 2024Thousands of scholars and historians gathered in the Big Easy for the 2024 Organization of American Historians conference, where a range of radical and progressive panels and workshops were held.
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Warsaw Ghetto 1943: Jews fight back against Nazi colonialism and genocide
April 19, 2024Together with the Independent Jewish Press Service, the Daily Worker helped broadcast the details of the uprising and tell the whole world about the Holocaust then underway in Europe.
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Byron and the ‘Satanic School’: On the bicentennial of his death
April 19, 2024The impression made on Byron by Italian and Greek revolutionaries and, not least, his personal experiences of the wars of the suffering and fighting people, led to a new socially critical awareness.
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‘Pender Denton—Outlaw’: An affecting, understated Old West gay love story
April 18, 2024The love that dared not speak its name has been shouting from the rooftops for well over half-a-century now. And in Martin David’s new book, it’s making an appearance at an even earlier time.
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Bay of Pigs 1961: ‘The world knows the truth about invasion of Cuba’
April 17, 2024U.S.-backed mercenaries tried to overthrow the Cuban Revolution on April 17, 1961. They failed, but their assault turned out to be the opening of a decades-long war against the people of Cuba.
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