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‘The Sympathizer’: Not sympathetic enough
April 26, 2024HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.”
Read moreThe Carnation Revolution at 50: An interview with the Portuguese Communist Party
April 26, 2024Albano Nunes, a member of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and a direct participant in the events of April 25, 1974, talks about the significance of the Portuguese Revolution today.
Read moreRednecks, Reds, and the hues of struggle
April 25, 2024When you hear the word “redneck” what do you imagine? Farmworkers? Rural white people? There’s a history to the word.
Read more‘Fear of a Socialist America’: Research on Black radicals featured at historians conference
April 24, 2024Thousands of scholars and historians gathered in the Big Easy for the 2024 Organization of American Historians conference, where a range of radical and progressive panels and workshops were held.
Read moreWarsaw Ghetto 1943: Jews fight back against Nazi colonialism and genocide
April 19, 2024Together with the Independent Jewish Press Service, the Daily Worker helped broadcast the details of the uprising and tell the whole world about the Holocaust then underway in Europe.
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