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South Africa’s Communists Were Crucial to the Fight Against Apartheid

Owen Dowling Jacobin
From its foundation in the 1920s, the South African Communist Party took up the fight against racism as a central part of its political vision. The party’s heroic record in the anti-apartheid movement has now received the historical treatment it deserves.

Bertolt Brecht (and Me)

Victor Grossman CounterPunch
"A rich man and a poor man, there they stood, And judged each other as best they could. The poor man said, his voice at low pitch, If I were not poor you’d not be rich." -- Brecht

Only in Mississippi

Bobby Harrison and Adam Ganucheau Mississippi Today
White representatives vote to create white-appointed court system for Blackest city in America

The Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting Old Law

Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen ProPublica
Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.

Hyundai Supply Chain and Child Labor

Brett Wilkins Common Dreams
The call from congressional lawmakers comes amid a surge in child labor violations—and as Republican state lawmakers seek to roll back over a century of child labor protections.

The Supreme Abortion

Lavinia Kumar New Verse News
Did the Supreme Court overstep the definitions of the word “abortion” in the great leak of secrecy? Ask poet Lavinia Kumar.