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PEOPLE’S VICTORY 1975: ‘Liberation banners fly over Vietnam’
April 30, 2024A selection of articles from our May Day 1975 issue covering the re-unification of Vietnam.
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‘The Sympathizer’: Not sympathetic enough
April 26, 2024HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.”
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The Carnation Revolution at 50: An interview with the Portuguese Communist Party
April 26, 2024Albano Nunes, a member of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and a direct participant in the events of April 25, 1974, talks about the significance of the Portuguese Revolution today.
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Rednecks, Reds, and the hues of struggle
April 25, 2024When you hear the word “redneck” what do you imagine? Farmworkers? Rural white people? There’s a history to the word.
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‘Fear of a Socialist America’: Research on Black radicals featured at historians conference
April 24, 2024Thousands of scholars and historians gathered in the Big Easy for the 2024 Organization of American Historians conference, where a range of radical and progressive panels and workshops were held.
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