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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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Fighting fascism in the USA: Lessons from history
October 22, 2024“Anti-communism, great power chauvinism, white supremacy, racism, and anti-Semitism” – the hallmarks of fascism’s divide-and-rule strategy.
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A 70th anniversary screening of radical labor film ‘Salt of the Earth’
October 22, 2024Revisiting the blacklisted 1954 film, a classic of labor storytelling.
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‘The Apprentice’ showcases anti-communist Roy Cohn’s shaping of Trump
October 21, 2024The new Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice is a tortured, yet must-see movie for anyone even remotely concerned about American politics.
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