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Vienna: City of contrasts and contradictions
January 30, 2024What to say about Vienna? A divided city, poised between a gleaming future, voted in poll after poll the most livable city in the world, as a result of its Socialist and Social Democratic reforms, and...
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Art enters the age of imperialism
January 29, 2024Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893) speaks to us again today with great intensity.
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Albert Maltz’s long-suppressed civil rights novel is rediscovered—and still relevant
January 23, 2024A Long Day in a Short Life, just released in a beautiful new paperback edition by Alma Books, is available for the first time since 1957. You’ve probably never heard of it.
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‘Hippie Faggot Freak’: Memoir of a pathetic youth and emerging gay liberation
January 22, 2024Dale Mitchell’s lengthy account of his first 21 years is intermittently rewarding, but it is a slog demanding much patience.
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The world is a better place because Lenin lived
January 19, 2024100 years after the Russian Revolution leader’s death, CPUSA Co-chair Joe Sims discusses his enduring influence.
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