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March For Our Lives shifts to new strategy
August 12, 2020“It’ll take election after election after election…And if we don’t learn from our errors, we are destined to repeat them.”
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Selection of Kamala Harris as VP candidate makes history
August 12, 2020For the second time in 12 years, a major U.S. political party puts an African American, this time a woman, on its national ticket.
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Radical historian challenges traditional Marxist view of ‘so-called’ American Revolution
August 11, 2020Marxists ranging from Lenin to Ho Chi Minh to CPUSA historian Herbert Aptheker have viewed the American Revolution as a bourgeois-democratic revolution that advanced the cause of liberty, as incomplete and flawed as it was. Gerald Horne says no.
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‘Beirut is burning’: Lebanese youth leader says country in trouble before blast
August 11, 2020Adnan Al-Mokdad of the Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth says the working and poor people of Lebanon were already in a disastrous situation even before the port explosion.
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S.F. judge: Uber, Lyft drivers are ‘employees’ with worker rights, not ‘contractors’
August 11, 2020The big ride-sharing apps Uber and Lyft break California law by misclassifying their drivers as “independent contractors,” not “employees” with worker rights, a judge has decided.
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