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No books burned this time in Berlin despite ominous parallels

May 7, 2024 By Victor Grossman

Unlike the Nazis at Humboldt University in 1933, the students in 2024 are protesting against genocide rather than paving the way for it.

From Atlanta to Marseille, archivists work to preserve Black and colonized literature

May 6, 2024 By Erica Meade

News from a panel in Georgia.

The Odessa trade union massacre, ten years later

May 2, 2024 By John Wojcik

The war in Ukraine didn’t start in February 2022. One of its earliest atrocities was a mass murder in Odessa in 2014.

PEOPLE’S VICTORY 1975: ‘Liberation banners fly over Vietnam’

April 30, 2024 By People’s World

A selection of articles from our May Day 1975 issue covering the re-unification of Vietnam.

‘The Sympathizer’: Not sympathetic enough

April 26, 2024 By Dennis Broe

HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.”