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Remembering Pete Seeger on his 100th birthday
May 2, 2019Military intelligence deemed Pete unfit for sensitive positions due to his “Communistic sympathies" and "unsatisfactory relations with landlords."
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Campus events recall Communist Party’s history of fighting racism
May 2, 2019A uniquely American form of amnesia has targeted historians, making “positive appraisals of communists nearly non-existent.”
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May Day flashbacks: Memories of a Communist and working-class leader
April 30, 2019On this special day, workers hold their heads higher and walk with a jaunty spring to their step. This is their day.
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Communists and the unemployed—The story of the moldy Thuringer
April 26, 2019In the Depression of the ’30s, the Unemployed Councils, organized by Communists, fought to get people the things they needed.
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‘Red Joan’: The British Rosenbergs?
April 26, 2019Nunn’s stodgy Red Joan rarely rises above the form of filmed theatre and never becomes, alas, a truly realized feature film in its own write/right.
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