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Jim Thorpe’s 1912 golds still resonate, amaze

January 20, 2021 By Steve Douglas

“His example of an outsider who bested everyone at their own game on the supposedly equal playing field of sport was a huge and lasting inspiration. It accounts for a large part of his enduring reputation...

Homage to Michael: My (East) German friend of half a century

January 15, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

The World Federation of Democratic Youth, a pro-Communist network of student and young people’s organizations based in Prague, published World Student News, a magazine gently trying to promote peaceful coexistence and socialist politics. The magazine carried...

Compelling account of inspirational Black activist Claudia Jones in new booklet

January 8, 2021 By Morning Star

David Horsley’s focus is on Jones’s life in advancing class, race, and gender resistance to the racist system of imperialism in what George Jackson called “the belly of the beast.”

Ukraine’s fascist-backed government erasing Red Army from history

December 23, 2020 By Ben Chacko

Authorities in Lviv are dismantling the city’s Monument of Glory, a memorial to Red Army soldiers who died fighting the Nazi invasion.

Remembering Bruce Carver Boynton, anti-segregation fighter and Freedom Ride inspiration

December 21, 2020 By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II And Elliott Smith

Boynton’s arrest and Supreme Court case 62 years ago helped inspire youth-led movements for social change.