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Moyshe Kulbak’s ‘The Zelmenyaners’: A Yiddish novel about the early Revolutionary Soviet years
March 31, 2025Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zelmenyaners first appeared in English translation in 2013, but it escaped my attention. It has now appeared in a new edition from White Goat Press, an imprint of the Yiddish Book Center in...
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Steven Knight: Poet of the Savagery of British capitalism
March 19, 2025Stephen Knight, through a series of series, has charted the brutality of the British ruling class in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Raúl Grijalva, champion of working people and Mother Earth – ¡Presente!
March 19, 2025Raúl was not a liberal like the rest but still the radical he was in his youth; he was one of us.
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U.S. imperialism declares war on Cuban doctors
March 19, 2025Rubio’s assault on Cuban medical missions contends with Caribbean opposition born in revolution.
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Memorial to German Communist heroes Luxemburg, Liebknecht, and Thälmann desecrated
March 14, 2025After being destroyed by Nazis in 1935, German Communist leaders’ headstones have been vandalized again.
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