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Five socialist vets provide their thoughts on capitalism, socialism, imperialism, and the military.

The Soviet experience of Nazi invasion inspired many powerful works of cinema. Soviet filmmakers avoided triumphalist images of warfare, depicting the conflict as a brutal necessity that should never be repeated.

The modern movement for queer liberation—or gay liberation to use the as-yet less inclusive terminology of the 1960s and ’70s—wouldn’t exist without the Communist Party USA.

A new industrial policy but workers get barely mentioned!

Instead of debating tweaks at the edges of our tax system, what we should be doing is stretching ourselves to imagine a world where billionaires are impossible.

“They want to turn the United States of America that we love and cherish into a democracy.”

Text messages and interviews show that Stop the Steal leaders fooled the Capitol police and welcomed racists to increase their crowd sizes, while White House officials worked to both contain and appease them.

"While this may help heal our grieving community, this rare moment of consequence for killings by police does not represent justice."

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