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Battle Hymn of the Republic - Modified for Relevance

June 22, 2018

We rewrote the Battle Hymn because, well . . . because it needed it.

Separated From Her Mother at the Border, a Six-Year-Old Has to Find Her Own Way

June 22, 2018

A Salvadoran woman becomes her family’s lifeline when her sister was taken to a detention facility in Texas and her niece to an Arizona shelter.

Who is Stephen Miller? Senior Advisor for Policy

June 22, 2018

The mastermind behind Trump's travel ban has been waging a war against minorities for a long time – Narrated by Debra Messing

The CEOs Profiting Off of Immigrant Detention

June 22, 2018

Few Americans know about our nation's system of immigrant detention centers. Learn more about who profits and who the prison industry helped put in power.

June 22, 2018

Quartering

Seema Reza The Quarry

What it means to bring a war back home is the subject of Seema Reza’s searing poem about our soldiers.

June 21, 2018

'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like': Mass Demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport as Kids Ripped From Parents Arrive in New York; Dozens of Parents with their Babies Occupy ICE Field Director Office

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

"We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them." Parents with their babies occupy ICE Field Director Office. Calling for swift reunification of children with their families.

June 21, 2018

Nazis Separated Me From My Parents as a Child. The Trauma Lasts a Lifetime

Yoka Verdoner The Guardian

I know from experience that the Trump-sanctioned brutality at the US border with Mexico will scar its child victims for life. What is happening today is as evil and criminal as what happened to me and my siblings as children in Nazi Europe.

June 21, 2018

Creating a Viable Black Left: Sixteen Lessons Learned in Building the Radical Black Congress

Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Jamala Rogers Black Commentator

A viable, active left-wing formation is very much needed in Black America. A formation that has a grassroots membership rather than just a non-profit staff; a formation that is militant, if not audacious, challenging racial capitalism and imperialism

June 21, 2018

Tidbits - June 21, 2018 - Reader Comments: Trump's Kidnapping and Resistance; Albert Einstein and Racism; Nicaragua and the Left; Study Medicine in Cuba; First Black-Led Union; How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World; Barbara Hillman; and more

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Reader Comments: Trump's Kidnapping, Concentration Camps and Resistance; Albert Einstein and Racism; Nicaragua and the Left; Study Medicine in Cuba; First Black-Led Union; How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World; Barbara Hillman; and more

June 21, 2018

Perry Anderson's Long Goodbye to Gramsci's Hegemony

Bruce Robbins The Nation

Perry Anderson based his early Antonio Gramsci work on a reading of ruling class political hegemony based on consent. Now he insists that coercion is at history’s heart, a reading he also ascribes to Gramsci. Both propositions are overstated.