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  Prashad: The Kisan [Farmers’] Commune in India

  "These are portraits of human beings with names, struggles, and aspirations, a way of life. These are portraits of a class. These are portraits of a historic protest."
• Day: There Once Was a Socialist College in the Rural South

  Commonwealth College taught and trained over 1,500 worker-activists before becoming an early casualty of American anti-communism
• Toussaint: To Address Inequality and Global Poverty, We Must Cancel Debt

  In the present day, the socialist project must be feminist, ecologist, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, internationalist and self-governing
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  Espinosa: Breaking the international silence on Turkey’s aggression

  In response to Turkey’s invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan, an international peace delegation traveled to the region in solidarity and to demand an end to the occupation
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  de Sousa Santos: On Israel’s Colonial Occupation of Palestine

  The Final Solution Without End
• Gordon-Reed: Growing Up With Juneteenth

  How a Texan holiday became a national tradition
• Henderson: Here’s how Big Pharma ‘can create perverse incentives’ for drug approval

  The process for approving and regulating drugs can be much different in other countries from what it is in the U.S.
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  Baker: Biden, China, and the New Cold War

  Many people don’t seem to realize the absurdity of trying to spend China into the ground, as some would claim we did with the Soviet Union
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  Cohen: School Privatization Lobby Places Fake News on Local Stations

  With Ed Newsfeed, the Betsy DeVos-funded American Federation for Children distributes syndicated content to TV stations. They run it as news
• Johnson: Led by Sanders, Dems Weigh $6 Trillion Infrastructure Bill as Bipartisan Talks Fail on Climate

  "The Republican Party has made clear that they are not prepared to stand up for the American people and address the many crises facing working families today. We can get to work without them."
• Tarleton: Barbara Bowen Passes the Torch

  The outgoing leader of NYC's leftmost union local looks back on long struggle to transform CUNY
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  Rosen: Break-Up Big Tech?

  Amazon, a Public Utility?: Keep Your Fingers Crossed
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  Chomsky: Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power

  It’s hard to garner votes with the slogan “I want to rob you. Vote for me.” That leaves only a few options. One is to prevent the “wrong people” from voting.
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  Klein: Stealing Children to Steal the Land

  Interview with the legendary Manuel family about the uncovering of a mass grave of 215 Indigenous children
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  Prashad: Meet the Communists Who Now Govern Chile

  The new Constitution, which will be drafted in the next nine months, will have a progressive character
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  Rall: What I’d Do as NYC Mayor

  While our fellow citizens are sleeping on filthy, freezing cold or blazing hot sidewalks, tens of thousands of apartments and single-family homes sit empty for no good reason
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  Solomon: If Dennis Kucinich Becomes Mayor of Cleveland, It’ll Be a Shock to the System. Again.

  If Kucinich can emerge from the September primary and November runoff as Cleveland’s next mayor, City Hall could become a beacon for progressive change in urban America.
• Astore: America Is Stabbing Itself in the Back

  Tough Truths Are Desperately Needed About America’s Lost Wars
• Bendery: Texas Governor Signs Law to Stop Teachers from Talking about Racism

  “The idea is to whitewash American history of any legacy of racism,” said state Democratic Rep. James Talarico.
• Nassar: Israel kills Palestinian child as settlers steal land

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• Popuchet: Pedro Castillo’s Humble Roots Inspire Perú’s Masses

  Could Upend U.S.-Perú Relations