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2024 Word of the Year: Genocide (As In, Gaza)

Juan Cole Informed Comment
Genocide does not necessarily mean the destruction of a nation accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended to signify a coordinated plan aiming at the destruction of the foundations of the life of national groups.

This Week in People’s History, Jan 1–7

Portside
Cartoon re carbon dating -- Lump of coal chatting with a diamond
Too Good To Be True (1950), What’s Worse Than One Palmer Raid? (1920), Protest Genocide and Go To Jail (1895), Great Society=Great Hypocrisy (1965), The Big City's Calling (1920), A Writing Star Is Born (1935), Getting Elected Doesn’t Cut It (1920)

A Class in Politics

Edwin F. Ackerman Jacobin
How AMLO turned an anti-corruption campaign into an opportunity for economic redistribution.

Woody and Pete on Fascism

Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger UnAmerican Bandstand
This a radio program recorded in the 1940s in which Woody Guthrie sings accompanied in that performance by Sonny Terry on harmonica, Pete Seeger on banjo and Cisco Houston on guitar, they sing the chorus together. Also, two short videos with Pete.

Hopping Across the Line

John Washington The New York Review of Books
In Soldiers and Kings, Jason De León uses the anthropological method of “deep hanging out” to offer a complicated portrait of migrant smugglers.