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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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1933: Communist Party packs Madison Square Garden for anti-fascist rally
November 1, 2024With Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally drawing comparisons to the Nazi event hosted at the same venue in 1939, we look back to 1933 when the Communist Party USA packed the Garden to launch the united...
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August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ teaches the potent legacy of Southern slavery
October 24, 2024How does the indelible stain of slavery reverberate down into the 20th century?
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