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May Day: Made in the U.S.A.
April 30, 2021As he faced the gallows in 1886, Albert Parsons told the world it was not just he and the Haymarket defendants on trial, but rather the idea of socialism itself.
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Paris Commune at 150: Still going strong and challenging digital capitalism
April 28, 2021Karl Marx called it the first worker’s republic established in the history of humanity.
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‘The envelope please’: Darnella Frazier deserved an Academy Award
April 27, 2021Darnella’s document, which reignited the Black Lives Matter uprising and America’s ongoing racial reckoning, could be entitled "10 Minutes That Shook the World."
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Jeopardy category is: Reparations for victims of U.S. capitalism
April 22, 2021A House bill to study reparations for slavery, H.R. 40, resurfaced in committee this April and is dusting up old debates about how much is owed, to whom, and who should pay.
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Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’: A beloved piece of music for children
April 19, 2021This musical fairy tale, just under half an hour in length, is a surprisingly successful example of Socialist Realism, the newly promoted Soviet esthetic of the 1930s.
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