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50 years after reunification, Vietnam still stands as proof imperialism can be defeated
April 17, 2025April 30, 1975, continues to resonate, not just in Vietnam, but around the world. It remains a profound lesson in the limits of empire and the power of people determined to be free.
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The emerging people’s boycott movement against MAGA
April 14, 2025Looking to history can help us understand how to build mass coalitions regarding the continuing boycotts.
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Class struggle unionism and anti-fascism merge in the World Federation of Trade Unions
April 4, 2025Though shaped by Cold War divisions, the WFTU is not bound by its history.
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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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