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Academic Journals Are a Lucrative Scam

Arash Abizadeh Guardian
Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to do something about it. We started our own.

This Week in People’s History, Aug. 14–20

Portside
A natural stone arch in Utah known as Rainbown Arch
A Stone Rainbow (1909), Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1969), A ‘Great Assembly of the Fearless and Free’ (1819), Music’s New Language (1959), Whites’-Only Athletics Is a Big Loser (1964), Fan the Flames of Discontent (1909), How It All Began (1619)

Marx Goes to Texas

Ryan Moore Protean
In October of 1845, having been silenced by government censors—and on the run from possible extradition—Karl Marx once thought about moving to Texas.

Mirror, Mirror, Build the Wall

David Duhalde Democratic Left
Naomi Klein’s latest book explores how her “Doppelganger”, Naomi Wolf, embraced far-right conspiracies. Their divergent paths contain lessons for socialist organizing today.