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James Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights
June 7, 2019It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.
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Let’s not leave the Soviet Union out of our D-Day history
June 6, 2019World War II was won at battles like Stalingrad, long before the D-Day invasion.
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The working class becomes subject in the art of Gustave Courbet
June 5, 2019Gustave Courbet, born 200 years ago, was one of the first artists to show laborers at work so forcefully and honestly.
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Breaking ground for gay rights in the Communist press
June 4, 2019Other than left-sectarian grouplets that still believed homosexuality was bourgeois decadence, the only outlier in the '80s was the CPUSA.
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Sit down! The CPUSA, the CIO, and the great industrial union drive
June 3, 2019In the second half of the 1930s, Communists took on the task of organizing America's industrial workforce and fighting fascism in Spain.
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