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It wasn’t just hate – Fascism promised to solve capitalism’s problems
March 28, 2017The lesson is clear: you can’t beat something with nothing. If the left doesn’t come up with solutions to capitalism’s problems, the right’s popularity will continue.
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A Forever stamp for Dorothy Height, giant of the Civil Rights movement
March 28, 2017One of her campaigns was to integrate all units of the YMCA, which continues to be one of the most progressive national organizations for racial and gender justice.
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Radical theatre tradition lives on in “Harlequino: On to Freedom”
March 28, 2017Harlequino’s playwright upends conventional notions of this epoch and its theater by making the protagonist, Harlequino, Black. The African slave trade had already begun and the comedy (albeit with serious undertones) contends something I’d never heard...
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Teachers pour into streets to protest rising inequality in Argentina
March 28, 2017On Wednesday March 22, hundreds of thousands of public and private school teachers left their classrooms, marched and protested in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital.
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How long is Lenin’s shadow?
March 28, 2017There was no one right way to resolve the dilemmas Lenin left behind. Perhaps it is past time that the competing camps of “Leninists” reconcile on this matter.
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