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AOC & Co. are not communists—I should know
July 23, 2019As a younger man, I was organized as a communist not via Moscow, Russia, and the KGB, but in Youngstown, Ohio, by U.S. Steel and the collapse of the steel industry.
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How could we ever bring ourselves to join the Communist Party?
July 22, 2019Victor Grossman, a Cold War exile from McCarthyism, responds to Kevin Baker's New York Times book review of "A Good American Family."
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Republican Senate + Republican president = Extreme right-wing federal courts
July 19, 2019Flippant attitudes about control of the White House and progressive litmus tests quickly become capitulation to the extreme right when it comes to the federal court system.
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Trump launches 2020 campaign with racist and anti-communist attacks
July 18, 2019The real question is whether the U.S. will be a white supremacist, Christian nationalist, authoritarian state or a multi-racial, inclusive democracy, with full equality, welcoming to all.
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No going back: In defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar against Trump
July 18, 2019Omar has been unapologetic in her criticism of the system we live under. It's her unwillingness to back down that Trump and his supporters revile.
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