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Daily Worker 1933: Reichstag burns; Nazis blame Communists and radical left
September 16, 2025Hitler seized on the fire, blaming the Communists and the supposed radical left as a whole and using the blaze as an excuse to kill German democracy.
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Silence and terror: Analyzing poems by Genevieve Taggard and Richard Wright
September 16, 2025Both poems explore social conflict, challenging the reader to confront systems of oppression, arguing that neutrality in the face of injustice is impossible.
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What one man’s 45-year-old case tells us about the ‘Jim Crow Juries’ haunting Louisiana
September 12, 2025Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in the 1980s Louisiana, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life, despite two Black jurors voting not guilty.
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Arab governments openly collaborate with Israel’s repression of Palestinians
September 11, 2025There is de facto acceptance of genocide directed at people of Gaza
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U.S.-Israeli plan to hand Gaza over to private real estate developers advances
September 10, 2025Rather than directly annexing Gaza, Israel would transfer it to a colonial real estate “trust” similar to the old British East India Company.
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