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Nazi biscuits: German cookie heiress has no guilt about using slave labor
May 16, 2019"That was before my time," Verena Bahlsen said, claiming her family's company treated slave laborer well and paid them appropriately.
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The Communist Party in the ’30s: The Depression and the great upsurge
May 14, 2019When the Depression struck, Herbert Hoover and the business press said to wait for economic adjustment. But unemployed and hungry people couldn't wait.
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Manzanar pilgrimage commemorates Japanese-American internment victims
May 10, 2019This year's pilgrimage to the Manzanar internment camp was the 50th annual commemoration of the victims.
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“New Left” in old age: Lebowitz’s ‘Contradictions of Real Socialism’
May 9, 2019The 1960s New Left's populist fantasies are still not what's needed to build real socialism.
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Remembering 1945: No compromise with fascism, whatever form it takes
May 8, 2019The best memorial to the millions killed in the fight against fascism is to make sure that fascism never returns.
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