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Thanksgiving, the dark gift that keeps on giving
November 27, 2024There are some among us who are not jubilant at this time of year, this writer being among that number.
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A brief look at Giacomo Puccini’s social views on his death centennial
November 25, 2024Europe in the mid-19th century witnessed numerous revolutions and upheavals. The Revolutions of 1848, with uprisings in France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy, demanded political reform and national self-determination.
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The left out left comes out in Aaron Lecklider’s ‘Love’s Next Meeting’
November 22, 2024This book will certainly move many queer people on the left today and grant to them a new outlook on their position in the present-day left.
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New British documentary ‘Shoot to Kill’ asks, But who is the terrorist?
November 13, 2024“Murder, kidnapping, torture and intimidation were a routine part of Viet Cong (VC) and People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) operations during the Vietnam War.” They accused their enemies of precisely what the empire’s soldiers were doing,...
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Lenin in Seattle
November 7, 2024The story of how Russia’s revolutionary leader influenced the American workers who rose up in the Seattle General Strike of 1919.
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