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Reaffirming the Progressive Project in 2023

Harry Targ Diary of a Heartland Radical
For today and tomorrow, demanding a return to the reforms of the New Deal/Great Society period provides the only way to defeat the Right.

The Inflation Reality and the Attack on Wages

Arthur MacEwan Dollars & Sense
Inflation has been slowing but mainstream news reports that it is still high, and the Fed continues to talk about "high wages," and is raising interest rates to slow the economy and stop wage growth.

The Irish Fasting Tradition

Livia Gershon JSTOR
Particularly before the Second Vatican Council (a.k.a. Vatican II), fasting was part of the Catholic calendar. No one took it more seriously than the Irish.

Obey the Constitution (Before the Supreme Court)

Garrett Epps Washington Monthly
For the President to pay the national debt, regardless of the debt ceiling, would not be disobeying the Constitution—it would be obeying it and insisting that doing so supersedes the intervention of any other branch.

75 Years After Its Foundation, WHO Struggles for Sovereignty

Dian Maria Blandina People's Dispatch
This year marked the 75th anniversary of the WHO. As the UN agency approaches its yearly assembly in Geneva, it is struggling to secure adequate resources for functioning independently of the private sector and pressures from high income countries.

This Week in People’s History, May 23 . . .

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Mural by Diego Rivera showing workers in an automobile factory
Historic auto workers contract. 1st Amendment protects mail. U.S. army crosses ocean for the first time. Ford Company thugs assault union organizers. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released. Major union victory in Rochester. Court throws out FBI frame-up