At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and
the government botched the investigation of his murder.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-day-malcolm-x-was-killed
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Charlotta Bass at her desk at The California Eagle, the West Coast’s oldest
Black newspaper. She would run for vice president on the Progressive Party
ticket. Credit... Russell Contreras/Los Angeles Public Library, via Associated
This is the book review mentioned by Ken Hiebert.
Birney-Trotsky letters a reminder of the perils, challenges of leadership; Books
*Author:* Geddes, Gary
*Publication info:* Times - Colonist ; Victoria, B.C. [Victoria, B.C]30 Aug
2020: C.1.
Conversations With Trotsky: Earle Birney and the
Please note re above book review: Gary Geddes is the author of the review, not
the author of the book.
You can read "Conversations With Trotsky: Earle Birney and the Radical 1930s"
for free, if you have access to the Project Muse database (available thorough
many academic libraries, and some
Roger Kulp writes that a Grayzone article by Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal
"should be required reading for every DSA member."
Much of the article consists of a denunciation of the International Socialist
Organization (ISO) and "Trotskyites". The level of argumentation and coherence
A horrifying piece from The Guardian
"Orgeon fires: evacuated prisoners sleep on floor in packed Covid-19 hotspot"
Unprecedented wildfires and rushed evacuations in Oregon have wreaked havoc on
the state’s incarcerated population, with thousands now packed into a single
overcrowded prison that
Michael Meeropol's book "Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed
the Reagan Revolution" appears to be available at the link below. (I write
"appears" because I had a little bit of difficulty with the publisher's
website.)
https://www.fulcrum.org/ concern/monographs/bv73c1298 (
as to Whitney's background (including an e-mail address that appears in many of
his articles):
from Socialism and Democracy Online, March 20, 2011
*Mike Whitney* graduated from St. Michael’s College in 1975 with a degree in
English literature. For the last twenty-five years he has been running
for some reason, Whitney's email address was truncated when I did a
copy-and-paste. It ends @msn.com
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/kamala-harris-parents.html )
(Harris's parents were involved in a radical study group in Berkeley. Other
participants included Huey Newton and future Marxist historian Cedric Robinson.
In 2017, Jewish Currents published a piece about Sam Nahem, "Pitching Politics
from the Mound".
http://jewishcurrents.org/ pitching -politics-from-the- mound/ (
http://jewishcurrents.org/pitching-politics-from-the-mound/ )
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"Greaseball??! The use of that ethnic slur on this list is appalling.
I could also do without using "bastards" as a pejorative.
I ain't crazy about s.o.b., but that's about the nicest part of fkalosar's post.
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Ken -- Ellen Israel's memoir of Cuba travel doesn't state that the NLF pushed
for a particular line, and that's not how I read the review either. Ellen
writes:
"One of the most significant outcomes of the 1963 and 1964 Cuba trips was that
they became a catalyst for the anti-Vietnam War effort.
The article is behind a paywall. Would it possible for you to post the text?
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The Washington Post ran a lengthy article on Charlotta Bass last week.
https://www.washingtonpost. com/nation/2020/08/12/bass- kamala-first-black-vp/
( https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/12/bass-kamala-first-black-vp/ )
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I thought (perhaps incorrectly) that, in the preceding version of marxmail,
there was a rule that the name of a subscriber could not be used in the subject
line of a post. Is there such a rule now?
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Fantastic piece
Racial strife aboard a Navy ship left three men facing the threat of the death
penalty. They became little more than statistics in the military’s dismal
record of race relations in the Vietnam era.
full at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/ 08/19/magazine/black-marines- mutiny.html
The photos are from the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, and were
taken by leftists Marion Post Wolcott and Ben Shahn.
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I have no particular insights into what was going on in the minds of Robbie
Robertson and Levon Helm (though I suspect that I may have read more about that
than the author of the Slate article).
But I think John A. Imami hit the nail on the head, as to what the song meant,
and means, to him
from the wikipedia entry on Marc Kasowitz, the attorney representing Scott
Atlas:
Donald Trump
According to a May 23, 2017 article in Forward (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_(American_newspaper) ) , Kasowitz,
Benson, Torres, and Friedman has been a "go-to source" for
Eric Topol is the co-author of this New York Times op-ed, dated Set. 22, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/ 09/22/opinion/covid-vaccine- coronavirus.html (
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/opinion/covid-vaccine-coronavirus.html )
Abstract
More than 40% of all reported coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the
United States have occurred in nursing homes. As a result, health care worker
access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection control policies in
nursing homes have received
Judge Griesa's 1986 damages award to the SWP was $264,000. From the Court's
decision:
The SWP is awarded damages in the amount of $42,500 relating to disruption
activities, $96,500 for the surreptitious entries, and $125,000 for the use of
informants, or a total of $264,000.
According to the Marxist Internet Archive, the Engels piece was written and
published in 1890.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/04/19.htm
It was clearly not written to Marx (or Marx's ghost) since it concludes:
Furthermore, we are far too deeply indebted to the Jews. Leaving
When I clicked on the link, I couldn't get past the demand that I subscribe to
National Review.
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Helali is the candidate of the Party of Communists, USA. He is not a candidate
of the better-known CPUSA.
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As a magazine photojournalist, he immersed himself in the South as a witness to
civil rights marches and clashes. He was killed when the glider he was piloting
crashed.
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from a Spartacist League splinter
it's actually quite good (in my ultraleft opinion)
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Occasional marxmail contributor Barbara Winslow has written a biography "Sylvia
Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism".
https://www.amazon.com/Sylvia-Pankhurst-Politics-Political-Activism/dp/1857283457
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I urge people who are interested in this question to read Rosa Luxemburg.
>From "The Historical Conditions of Accumulation" (Section 3 of Rosa
>Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital), Chapter XXVI, "The Reproduction of
>Capital and Its Social Setting":
Since capitalist production can develop
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/obituaries/george-blake-british-spy-dead.html
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George Blake, British Spy Who Betrayed the West, Dies at 98
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I'm unfamiliar with Randa Morris and am therefore unaware of her research. I'd
appreciate any citations to her research endeavors and publications. Thanks.
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Re number of militia members in the United States: A September article in The
New York Times, citing "experts in domestic terrorism and law enforcement
analysts" (whatever that is) as follows"
"These experts estimate that there are some 15,000 to 20,000 active militia
members in around 300
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/world/africa/priscilla-jana-dead.html
(photos omitted)
By Alan Cowell Nov. 24, 2020
Representing Nelson and Winnie Mandela among many others, Ms. Jana fought for
equality in South Africa both in and out of the courtroom.
Priscilla Jana, a forthright human
A Malaysian company that makes disposable gloves used around the world for
protection against the coronavirus has been hit by a major outbreak among its
workers, many of them foreign laborers who live in crowded dormitories.
The outbreak at 28 factories operated by the company, Top Glove
I believe that Michael's reference to Abdul-Jabbar's comments is to this:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-is-outrage-anti-semitism-sports-hollywood-1303210
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from Barron's, a publication for investors
Interesting interview (though given the nature of the publication, the first
question is "What are the big investment opportunities coming out of this
pandemic?")
workerpoet wrote: Though a secular Ashkenazi, I am a lover of Yiddish. I found
a place that preserves ( https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/ ) Yiddish
literature but I don't see anything from political presses. One of the few
books in Yiddish I still have is a bit of Red literature called
We Charge Genocide can be read on Google Books at
https://www.google.com/books/edition/We_Charge_Genocide/dSNYMAAJ?hl=en=1
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Thank you, Patrick, for your recollections of activism at Hopkins.
There's a 1986 article from the Washington Post about a sit-in, in which you
played a role. The article begins with these words:
"A group of angry students"
and, from Roger Stone:
"I just learned of absolute incontrovertible evidence of North Korean boats
delivering ballots through a harbor in Maine, the state of Maine," Stone said.
[snip]
Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap addressed Stone’s claims in a statement to
NEWS CENTER Maine Thursday,
The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of
prisoners to the work camps of Stalin’s gulag. The ruins of that cruel era are
still visible today.
By Andrew Higgins
Photographs and Video by Emile Ducke
Interestingly, McGovern was a supporter of Henry Walace and a delegate to the
1948 Progressive Party convention,
>From the LA Review of Books review of Thomas Knock's biography of McGovern:
After receiving his degree from Dakota Wesleyan College after the war, McGovern
tried his hand at his
The New England Journal of Medicine
Nov. 26, 2020
N Engl J Med 2020; 383:2101-2103
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2026170
by Mary T. Bassett, M.D., M.P.H., and Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026170?query=TOC
(co-author Mary T. Bassett has a history of activism, and
The photos can be seen at
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/arts/design/danny-lyon-sncc-photography.html
Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets
The
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Abolition Is Not Complete
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The framers of the 13th Amendment did not intend to establish an empire of
prison labor.
By Eric Foner
Mr. Foner is the author of “ The Second Founding (
https://www.wwnorton.com/books/the-second-founding ) : How
Here is the second article on inflation from the December 12 issue of the
Economist. (A note to people in the U.S.; don't know if this applies to other
places: Many public libraries in the U.S. make access to datatbases available
without going to a library. And, as a result of the pandemic,
The December 12 issue of The Economist contains two articles on whether
inflation is coming. Here's one -- I will post the other in a subsequent
message.
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Will inflation return?
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Date: Dec. 12, 2020
Low inflation (
"I'm Still Louis Armstrong-Colored": Louis Armstrong and the Civil Rights Era
https://virtualexhibits.louisarmstronghouse.org/2020/05/11/im-still-louis-armstrong-colored-louis-armstrong-and-the-civil-rights-era/
by Ricky Riccardi, author of a biography of Armstrong discussed in The Guardian
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/jean-graetz-dead.html
With her husband, Robert, Mrs. Graetz became a friend of Rosa Parks and
supported the Montgomery bus boycott, despite threats to her life.
By Clay Risen Dec. 19, 2020, 1:55 p.m. ET
Jean Graetz, who was among the few white people in
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/books/review/sylvia-pankhurst-rachel-holmes.html
excerpt from the book is at
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/books/review/sylvia-pankhurst-natural-born-rebel-by-rachel-holmes-an-excerpt.html
"The Scars of the Ghetto" can be found at
https://monthlyreview.org/2015/05/01/the-scars-of-the-ghetto/
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longtime Democratic Party politician in NYC, with a background that's related
to the Communist Party
Born Aug. 27, 1928, in Orangeburg, S.C., Spigner and his family moved to Queens
during the Great Depression. He graduated from Central Needle Trades High
School in
Today's New York Times has a very lengthy opinion piece on the issue raised by
Gary and commented on by others. It includes comments from a number of
historians of various political views, including two leftists, Eric Foner and
Greg Gandin. I think it's worth looking at for the variety of
Oct. 14, 2020
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/legendary-progressive-journalist-bob-sarti-dies-at-77
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35 Years After MOVE Bombing That Killed 11, Philadelphia Apologizes
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A police
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volume 1 is also available online
The translation by Moore and Aveling is at
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
The Penguin translation by Fowkes is at
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/Marxism/Capital%20-%20Vol.%201%20Penguin.pdf
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Michael Meeropol asks: has it hit the national news media??
The New York Times has reported this (with a link to report in the Iowa
Capital Dispatch)
https://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar/Detail?id=56255_cid=4511290691_eid=a219c11897
November 19
6PM-7PM, EST
Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY Graduate Center
free, w/reservation
Reserve Now ( https://www.crowdcast.io/e/peniel-e--joseph-on-mlk )
Peniel E. Joseph's dual biography of
Nov. 16 -- Atlas promotes Thanksgiving gatherings in Fox News interview.
(geezers die anyway, "believe it or not"; might as well enjoy the turkey)
DR. SCOTT ATLAS: This kind of isolation is one of the unspoken tragedies of the
elderly who are now being told don't see your family at
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/books/review/the-dead-are-arising-les-payne-tamara-payne.html
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A New Life of Malcolm X Brimming With Detail, Insight and Feeling
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Louis Proyect wrote: Mariategui lives!
The most recent issue of Against The Current has an article, "José Carlos
Mariátegui: Pioneering Latin American Marxist".
https://againstthecurrent.org/atc209/jose-carlos-mariategui-pioneering-latin-american-marxist/
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He used medicine to take on poverty, racism and the threat of nuclear
destruction. Two groups he helped start won Nobel Peace Prizes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/health/h-jack-geiger-dead.html
Dr. H. Jack Geiger in 2012. He believed doctors should use their expertise and
moral authority
We can all breathe a sigh of relief.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/mary-miller-hitler-remarks-controversy.html
Congresswoman Apologizes for Making an Approving Reference to Hitler
Re the armed leftist groups under discussion -- I am not knowledgeable about
the various groups mentioned by Jeffrey Masko, and criticized by Louis Proyect.
I think both may be conflating a variety of groups that need to be examined
individually.
All I know about the Socialist Rifle
In the wake of Wednesday’s insurrection, lawmakers have embraced one response:
“This is not who we are.” But that’s not true at all. Guns, conspiracies,
rampages: The video above argues that everything we saw that afternoon was
exactly who we are — because it’s the product of who we’ve always
Thank you for posting this, Andrew.
I have submitted the following comment to The Times; my comment is awaiting
approval.
Readers should be aware that the account published in The Times has been
disputed by Daniel Ellsberg's son Robert. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
(FAIR) has published
A wonderful piece by Eric Gordon
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/homage-to-michael-my-east-german-friend-of-half-a-century/
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Veteran journalist Tom Robbins will be interviewing John Levin, a veteran of
the San Francisco State Strike, and Michael Balter, who went into the army to
organize against the war in Vietnam.
Monday, January 18, 5PM
WBAI FM 99.5
live at wbai.org
(the program is archived, in case you can't
I agree with John O'Brien that articles in People's World often cover up
shameful aspects of CPUSA (and Soviet) history. But not always.
Eric Gordon wrote this piece in People's World about efforts to get the CPUSA
to acknowledge the existence of gay liberation/gay rights issues.
There's a documentary about Trotter, "Birth of a Movement" that's worth seeing.
Here's a link to a review in The New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/ culture/richard-brody/the-
black-activist-who-fought- against-d-w-griffiths-the- birth-of-a-nation (
Louis Proyect wrote: " you have people on the left, like Shane Hopkinson in
Australia, who are hostile to transgender goals."
Perhaps Comrade Proyect is thinking of someone other than Shane Hopkinson.
(Hopkinson had earlier posted: "I am not well enough informed on the issue of
Transgender
It was autumn in Iowa, it was 1961.
Fourteen Grinnell students, four women and ten men, decided to drive the
thousand miles to Washington, DC, and fast for three days in front of the White
House. Others would stay behind to organize campus support. The common goal was
to protest the nuclear
In 2016, International Publishers put out a revised edition of "The Civil War
in the United States" by Marx and Engels.
https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/the-civil-war-in-the-united-states/
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NY Times obit at
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/politics/rennie-davis-dead.html
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Rennie Davis, ‘Chicago Seven’ Antiwar Activist, Dies at 79
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The trial arising from the
Genovese's "The World The Slaveholders Made" is an excellent source for his
views on the issues being discussed here. I think it's well worth reading,
whether or not you agree with his conclusions.
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>From The New York Times: "Do Curfews Slow the Coronavirus?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/health/coronavirus-curfews.html
A restriction more often used in natural disasters, or to quell unrest, has
never been tested against a pathogen like the virus.
By Gina Kolata (
Your memory seems to be better than you realize.
The title of Friedman's book is indeed "The World Is Flat", as you originally
wrote.
https://www.worldcat.org/ title/world-is-flat-a-brief-
history-of-the-twenty-first- century/oclc/255897709& referer=brief_results (
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The Secret Israeli Cyber Firm Selling Spy-tech to Saudia Arabia
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Megiddo, Gur (
The first paragraph of the story was omitted from my earlier post. Here it is:
There’s no sign on the door, no logo indicating that this office is home to an
offensive cyber company. But if you made it to the 19th floor of this
nondescript office building in Ramat Gan you either know where
Despite Beijing styling itself as a supporter of Palestine, China and Israel
have built a close economic relationship.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/7/chinas-ties-with-israel-are-tested-by-gaza-but-not-sorely
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Thanks for posting (and writing) this piece. Does anyone know of solidarity
groups actively engaging in the work described in the article's conclusion:
"We in the U.S. left, while supporting the general movement for political
democracy and civil rights, should seek to identify and to work with
WIS News
Columbia, South Carolina
June 18, 2021
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SC Lawmakers open to bill allowing state workers to take off Juneteenth or
Confederate Memorial Day
Eric A. Gordon's review of
Dictionary of the Queer International
Edited by Yevgeniy Fiks
Publication Studio Guelph (Ontario), 2020
92 pp., $15 *
*
https://peoplesworld.org/ article/new-dictionary-of-the-
queer-international-informs- inspires-confounds-puzzles- delights/ (
The following e-mail is making the rounds:
*Please circulate this to anyone you know who was involved back then and who
agrees with the position stated in the letter.*
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are circulating and asking folks to sign the *Open Letter to the Nicaraguan
government* below
from Andrew, Edward, "Class in Itself and Class against Capital: Karl Marx and
His Classifiers",
Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique
Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sep., 1983), pp. 577-584
(available via JSTOR)
" ... Marx never referred to classes in themselves or
The settlement agreement is at
http://www2.seattle.gov/ethics/Meetings/2021-05-10/item3.pdf
Sawant acknowledged that she illegally used government funds and municipal
workers to support her effort to tax Amazon. Sawant stated that she believed
she was acting legally. (From my reading of the
this is fuckin' sick
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a
bill that forces death row inmates for now to choose between the electric chair
or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the state can restart executions after
an involuntary 10-year pause.
I don't know who first used the "class in itself" vs. "class for itself"
terminology, but it precedes Bukharin's 1921 work.
>From "Socialistic Fallacies" by Yves Guyot, at p. 323:
In France, the theorists and the leaders of the Confederation of Labour, MM.
Georges Sorel, Hubert Lagardelle and
Associated Press journalist Fares Akram discusses the evacuation and the
bombing of the building.
Excerpts
After the most unsettling of days in the community where I was born and raised
and now cover the news — in the place where my mother and siblings and cousins
and uncles live — I am home
Thanks for posting this, Louis.
I went to the excellent Alice Neel show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It
includes this portrait of Gold.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844394?=%7bebc2cd20-ef8a-48a4-b327-7e037956caa6%7d=844394=682=0=20=40=*=20
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One of several Black athletes who had threatened to boycott the 1968 Summer
Games, he won two gold medals, then raised his fist at the presentation
ceremony.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/sports/olympics/lee-evans-olympic-runner-who-protested-racism-dies-at-74.html
Lee Evans raised his
According to this article, 250,000 people did not march.
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2021/05/20/no-250k-people-did-not-march-for-palestine-in-dearborn
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A Tennessee native, Thurman co-founded the Young Patriots, a group of poor
white Appalachian migrants that organized in Uptown in the 1960s, became part
of the original Rainbow Coalition, and changed politics in Chicago forever.
Here's a possibility as to how potatoes were transmuted into horseshit:
piece of horse dung
Pferdeäpfel horse droppings pl or dung no pl
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/german-english/pferdeapfel
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New Frame (Johannesburg)
June 2, 2021
The poet, author and community worker was fearless – or ‘unbung’ – in his
activism, using drama, art, literature and music to foster critical thinking
and to fight for non-racialism.
https://www.newframe.com/sharp-read-colin-smuts-unbung-but-not-unsung/
Robert Scheer's pamphlet, "How The United States Got Involved In Vietnam, is
available at
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By Telegraph Obituaries 19 May 2021
In the 1960s he defended the Trotskyist-Leninist ideal of permanent revolution
built on the revolutionary consciousness of the working class
Cliff Slaughter, who has died aged 92, was an academic who inhabited those
outer reaches of hard-Left socialism
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