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What they didn’t teach you about Cuba
May 9, 2025How the island has withstood nearly seven decades of U.S. sanctions policy.
Read moreHomoerotica on trial: An 1890s photographer and his negatives in fascist Italy
May 9, 2025This play is a part of a celebration of plays and lectures in Los Angeles aimed at raising awareness about the rise of fascism, racism, and antisemitism, and the power of art and design to resist...
Read more80 years since the defeat of fascism: Pages from the Daily Worker
May 8, 20251945-2025: From the meeting of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe River to the fall of Berlin, the Daily Worker provided readers the most important news of Nazi Germany's final defeat.
Read morePeace organizations as Hiroshima anniversary approaches: Nuclear proliferation still threatens humanity
May 7, 2025“If you want peace, prepare for peace,” they declare as 191 nations meet at UN to discuss non-proliferation treaty renewal.
Read moreHow Communist farmers in Minnesota helped radicalize composer Aaron Copland
May 6, 2025In the chaotic disarray of 1934, Aaron Copland, an aspiring composer, found himself disillusioned by the hollow promises of the avant-garde, its glittering façade crumbling under the weight of his growing class consciousness.
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