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Jan. 6, 2021 – Never forget Trump’s fascist coup
January 6, 2025The following editorial was published by People’s World in the early evening of Jan. 6, 2021. It appeared on our website as the fires were still burning on the National Mall.
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‘A Complete Unknown’: It ain’t me, babe!
January 3, 2025Perhaps we ask too much from our heroes.
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The ‘Sit-Down Strike’ that brought General Motors to its knees: Three workers remember
December 30, 2024Interviews with three labor heroes who participated in the historic 1936-37 strike that unionized the auto industry.
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‘Soundtrack to a Coup D’État’ recounts the assassination of Patrice Lumumba
December 20, 2024Many progressives consider the assassination of the first Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba as among the earliest and certainly best known of the many regime change operations carried out by the U.S. empire.
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The death of the Soviet Union: Our Moscow correspondent reports in 1991
December 20, 2024On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the red hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. The next day, Dec. 26, the USSR...
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