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‘Let Them Tremble’: So much of this history reads like right now
August 12, 2020Through the lives of six Communists, Tony Pecinovsky shows the CPUSA playing a leading, if often behind the scenes role in every main arena of mass struggle of the 20th century's second half.
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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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Virtual march on Livermore Lab caps Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries
August 10, 2020The U.S. lab is devoting nearly 90% of its over-$2 billion budget for 2020-21 to nuclear weapons; only 2% will go to civilian science.
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Connecticut activists take up Hiroshima mayor’s call: “Unite against all threats”
August 6, 2020"Civil society must reject self-centered nationalism and unite against all threats," warned Mayor Kazumi Matsui of Hiroshima.
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Hiroshima survivors hammer Japanese government for not signing anti-nuke treaty
August 6, 2020Manabu Isawa, son of a bombing survivor who recently died, said: “Prime Minister Abe’s actions don’t match his words. Japan apparently sides with the United States."
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