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‘The Janes’: Courage and creativity on the abortion front
July 13, 2022In a time when once again women’s control over their own bodies has been rolled back, The Janes offers a primer for creative resistance.
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On the bicentennial of Shelley’s death: Evolution of a working-class poet
July 12, 2022Next to Burns, Shelley had the greatest influence on 19th-century working-class literature in England. His vision applies undiminished today.
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‘The Braille Legacy’: Musical stars an all-blind cast
July 6, 2022History was made last weekend when a musical about the inventor of the Braille alphabet that first premiered in London at the Savory and Charing Cross Theatre in 2017, received its American premiere.
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How to organize a union: ‘The Porter’ and Black service industry militancy
July 6, 2022A joint production of the public Canadian Broadcasting Company and BET+, 'The Porter,' about the organization of the first Black union in North America, is exactly the series we need right now.
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‘No Jim Crow in the IWO’: America’s radical Depression-era mutual aid society
July 1, 2022The International Workers Order displayed the power of working-class mutual aid in its time, and stands as an example still today.
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