Oversize personalities converge, to introduce or, for most readers, reintroduce subject and author. Howard Zinn. Yet Zinn’s work and life stand against what Trumpians seek to do to US history and today’s hardly-surviving democratic institutions.
Internationalism must go beyond protests and resolutions. We should ask not only what kind of government we are demanding but what kind of foreign policy progressives intend to implement once achieving governing power.
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How does an antifascism movement halt and reverse the expansion of Trumpism? Perhaps the U.S. antiwar movement of 1965-75 offers some clues. After all, it caused two elected presidents to give up the presidency.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the of World War II on the European continent. This week is also fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end. What are the lessons for today from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance
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The huge Israeli protests have been about bringing down the Netanyahu government. They also had a deeper, more subversive message. Without any of the speakers explicitly saying as much, Sunday’s demonstrations were for an end to the war.
There were no words for what to say about the war for 19-year-old combat vets coming home in 1967. Words like post-traumatic stress, survivor guilt did not exist. This book reveals the inner world of many war veterans that home folks haven’t a clue.
The antiwar movement now stands at a crossroads this summer, poised to become a transformative force for peace in a world wracked by violent conflict.
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