World War II
Nagasaki remembers 70,000 dead, calls on leaders to create nuclear-free zone
August 9, 2021Nagasaki marked the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city today with its mayor urging Japan, the United States, and Russia to do more to eliminate nuclear weapons. In his speech at...
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‘Dispatch Hitler to Hell’: Anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the USSR
June 22, 2021Military and political “experts” in the West predicted Hitler would conquer the Soviet Union within days. Blinded by their capitalist class interests, they longed for socialism to fail. How wrong they were.
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New ‘Go for Broke’ stamp honors Japanese American service members in WWII
June 7, 2021For a time, these second-generation Japanese Americans, known as Nisei, were denied the opportunity to fight despite being American citizens.
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Ukraine’s fascist-backed government erasing Red Army from history
December 23, 2020Authorities in Lviv are dismantling the city’s Monument of Glory, a memorial to Red Army soldiers who died fighting the Nazi invasion.
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Karl Yoneda and Elaine Black—star-crossed lovers in a class war
November 19, 2020"I will never forget the shock on the faces of our mostly African-American neighbors who live with racism every day to hear Karl and Elaine tell the story of their incarceration, the vicious racism they endured."
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