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“Mixing Pop and Politics, A Marxist History of Popular Music” – book review
Toby Manning’s history of popular music in its historical context is a rich and rewarding exploration of the politics of music, finds Charles Marriott.
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A brief history of the JVP (Peoples Liberation Front) Sri Lanka
The beginning of the left movement in Sri Lanka goes back to 1935.
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Ancient settlements show that commoning is ‘natural’ for humans, not selfishness and competition
As the first city-states started to form in ancient Mesopotamia, fed by a patchwork of farms across the fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, grain was stored in large siloes (in case of future shortages), and a surplus was generated for the first time, that was accumulated and controlled by a warrior class drawn from Mafia-like, oligarchic families, assisted by a priesthood that kept records and legitimized their rule via a mandate from the heavens.
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Philippines: Continuing history of resistance to U.S. military bases
In the coming days, the Filipino people will mark the historic termination of the Military Bases Agreement on September 16, 1991.
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How Britain started Vietnam War
In the post-World War II period, Britain waged a number of covert wars in every corner of the world, as its financial and military clout rapidly withered.
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Another war diary entry
Critical cultural historical perspective is not easy to obtain.
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Reading James Baldwin in a time of American decline
Baldwin theorizes whiteness as the psychology of empire.
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The Legacy of H. Bruce Franklin (1934–2024): A Memorial Tribute
H. Bruce Franklin, who died on May 19, 2024, at the age of 90, ranks among the great public intellectuals of our time. Carolyn L. Karcher writes on his immense legacy as a teacher, activist, and scholar.
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German culture must confront its past
How Palestine turned a classical musician and recovering child prodigy into a revolutionary.
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How Orangeism Paved the Way for British Capital
As the annual marches commemorating William of Orange’s ascension to power draw to a close, Mark Hackett reflects on how the events of 1688 shaped the modern bourgeoise state.
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The spy who kept notes
Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism.
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Reimagining lost visual archives of Black and Indigenous resistance
How can we trace the wounds of colonialism in the art historical record?
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People’s history of fourth of July
A collection of more than a dozen people’s history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass’s speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.
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‘Principles and Methods of a Marxist Kunstwissenschaft—Attempt at an Outline’
It is not easy to explain in such a limited space which philosophical, methodological, and practical features characterize the study of Kunstwissenschaft that arose from the insights won by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and were enriched by Vladimir Lenin, as well as many other scholars and revolutionaries.
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On The Rewriting of History
[Britannica’s revisionist] distortions of the history of the Vietnamese struggle are just as radical and just as misleading [as those about the Soviet Union]. Here we may draw some valuable lessons about the hidden content of form: how apparently neutral principles of organization may shape meaning.
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Land back at Barnhart
Contextualizing the Re-occupation of Barnhart Island in Shared Legacies of Struggle.
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Ten Holocaust survivors condemn Israel’s Gaza genocide
Holocaust survivors say using the Holocaust to justify genocide in Gaza and repress student protest on college campuses is a complete insult to the Holocaust’s memory.
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‘The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary’ – book review
An excellent history of the sixteenth-century radical Thomas Müntzer brings the radical Reformation and the dawn of the modern era into focus, finds Dominic Alexander.
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From the Mayans and the Aztecs to Claudia Sheinbaum and the 4th transformation
It is not coincidental. It’s in the annals. The Mexican people did it once again as on many other occasions throughout history. It is true that Hernán Cortés was accompanied by a Malinche (last Sunday there was also another courting the past) but memory reminds us of Atotoztli, Tomiyahuatl, Eréndira and Tecuichpo, great women who forged the Aztec nation.
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The mutiny at Dominica, 9 April 1802
As a Black army of mercenaries from Kenya, Barbados, Jamaica, and elsewhere arrives to continue the West’s colonial project in Haiti, we remember the history of the 1802 mutiny of African soldiers at Dominica.