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Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in the UFW Gave Chavez Immunity - Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; "State Ideology" of Zionism; After No Kings: What’s Next; Cartoons

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Young Communists Grow Older

Paul Buhle CounterPunch
This new book, the first of a projected three-volume history, is "the first by activists who grew up, so to speak, within, around, and just beyond the orbit of the CPUSA," writes reviewer Buhle.

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The Undeniable Greatness of Jaws

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Jaws is rightly celebrated as a landmark, generation-defining hit. But it’s not sufficiently recognized as a great 1970s film, exemplifying that rocky decade’s political ire, acerbic social critique, and the lingering practices of realist cinema movi

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Radioactive Radicals!

Paul Buhle Portside
Radioactive Radicals is a vivid, galvanizing portrait of two young radicals thrust into the whirlwind of revolutionary working-class politics from the 1960s to the present. Here is a whopper of a novel by any estimation.

When Boomers Come Together

Bill Mckibben The Progressive
Our new organization, Third Act, is mobilizing the generation with the most political and economic influence to fight for a working climate and a working democracy.

Angela Davis 1971 Prosecution : First Hand Remembrance

Michael Myerson Jacobin
When Angela Davis was arrested after two months on the lam in 1971, Michael Myerson interviewed her and a codefendant in jail — turning him into a prosecution’s witness. He was now in a tough spot: Could he defy the prosecution without going to jail

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Bella Abzug - The Fighter

Maggie Doherty The New York Review of Books
On the feisty congresswoman’s posthumous return to the spotlight. Abzug’s encounters with sexism pushed her toward feminism, and so did the support she received from female constituents and supporters after she was elected.
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