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News
Lessons from Zimbabwe
November 20, 2017If and when Mugabe departs, the fundamental challenges facing the Zimbabwean revolution and its people will remain: overcoming the colonial legacy and transforming the economy.
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This week in history: Americans United for Separation of Church and State founded
November 20, 2017Americans United believes that all Americans have the constitutional right to practice the religion of their choice—or refrain from taking part in religion—as individual conscience dictates. The government must remain neutral on religious questions. This has...
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This week in history: Holland Tunnel opens to traffic
November 15, 2017Tunnel construction required workers to spend large amounts of time in the caisson under high pressure of up to 47.5 pounds per square inch, which was thought to be necessary to prevent river water from entering...
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Culture
This week in history: Centennial of the October Revolution in Russia
November 6, 2017This week we publish the poem “October” by Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof (or Mariengof in Russian), who lived from 1897 to 1962.
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Culture
Eisenstein’s “Ten Days That Shook the World” screens in L.A.
November 3, 2017As the grand finale to the Ten Films That Shook the World film series , the Los Angeles Workers Center and Hollywood Progressive present Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 revolutionary classic.
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Politics
Communist Party conference to consolidate membership growth
November 1, 2017Like many organizations on the left, the CP has seen a burst of new members in the Trump era. Now, the task is to consolidate that growth.
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World
This week in history: The Protestant Reformation’s 500th birthday
October 31, 2017By the mid-16th century the Protestant attacks on Rome led to widespread depictions, in both word and imagery, of "good" against "bad" church.
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World
This week in history: Centennial of South African freedom fighter Oliver Tambo
October 27, 2017Oliver Reginald Tambo, leader of the African National Congress (ANC) in exile for thirty years, was born 100 years ago on October 27, 1917.
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