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WPC Statement Against Aggression of Netanyahu Government

Originally published by the World Peace Council – https://www.wpc-in.org/ The World Peace Council (WPC) denounces and condemns vehemently the recent attacks by the Israeli military against Lebanon with the destruction of civilian residences and infrastructure and the assassination of political leaders of the Lebanese people. The indiscriminate attack with heavy weapons against the Lebanese capital […]

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The Great San Francisco General Strike

Labor

The seventh session for 2024 of the Harry Bridges School of Labor was on the Great San Francisco General Strike. We will be going over the working conditions that led to the strike, the strike itself, as well as its aftermath. We will also watch some of an old ILWU documentary on the strike. The

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African Americans and the Soviet Union

US Friends of the Soviet People

Paul Robeson addressed the banquet sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York, on November 10, 1949, on the occasion of the celebration of the 32nd anniversary of the Soviet Union: I am deeply grateful for this opportunity to join more than half the people of the world

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UN: “Summit of the Future”

International

Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ There is no doubt that the United Nations must be strengthened as an international institution. For this reason, the UN General Assembly held a “Summit of the Future” this year on September 22/23 under the motto “Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow”. Germany and

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The Truth of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – PSMLS Class

PSMLS

The US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and August 8th 1945 were the first and only time nuclear weapons were used in on a civilian population. The nuclear bombings have long been pushed as “necessary evils” by the US bourgeois state. Tonight the Peoples School along with the Asian-American Friendship Congress (aafc.us.org)

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Catholics and Communists Excerpt – Gus Hall

PCUSA

In the eyes of the average American, the Communist attitude toward religion is summed up in the epithet “atheistic Communism” (or “Godless Communism”). If he knows anything more about the subject, it is probably that Marx once said: “Religion is the opium of the people.” In short, Communists have been reputed to look upon religion

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Mexico City: Emporium of Latin American Exiles and Revolutionaries in the 1920s

Daily Worker

In the interwar era, cities across the Americas became hubs in transnational networks that linked radicals and revolutionaries of all kinds: anarchists, Wobblies, Socialists, Communists, Garveyites, political exiles and vanguard intellectuals. While there were a number of these urban hubs — New York, Tampa, New Orleans and Havana all played a role — the largest

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Harry Bridges School of Labor 2024 Session 5: Internal Organizing Part 2 – Rank-and-File Action

History of the CIO Part 3 – Flint Sit-Down Strike, Class Two

Daily Worker

The second of two classes from the Harry Bridges School of Labor on the Flint Sit-Down Strike. The Harry Bridges School of Labor aims to educate the workers of America on the strength of unions and to foster a class-conscious workforce through Labor United Educational League. We aim to connect the struggles of the past

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John Reed’s “Ten Days that Shook the World”

PCUSA

New Outlook Publishers’ works are now being produced in Serbia. This book is a slice of intensified history–history as I saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed account of the November Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the head of the workers and soldiers, seized the state power of Russia and

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90 years ago: USSR Strengthens International Community Against Fascist Threat