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Six Takeaways From Sunday’s Hungarian Election

Janos Marton The Gameplan
As a Hungarian-American on my mother’s side, this election was very personal to me. just as people like Steve Bannon have learned powerfully evil lessons from Orban, we should also learn lessons from the successful opposition movement against him.

Tidbits-Apr 16-Reader Comments: One Tyrant Down; Iran Negotiations Led by Real Estate Magnates; No Longer Separation of Church and State, President Now Leading Global Theological Luminary; 7 Democrats Vote To Kill Bill Blocking Arms Sales to Israel;

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Reader Comments: One Tyrant Down, More to Follow?; Iran Negotiations Led by Real Estate Magnates; No Longer Separation of Church and State, President Now Leading Global Theological Luminary; 7 Democrats Vote to Kill Bill Blocking Arms Sales to Israel

Young Communists Grow Older

Paul Buhle CounterPunch
This new book, the first of a projected three-volume history, is "the first by activists who grew up, so to speak, within, around, and just beyond the orbit of the CPUSA," writes reviewer Buhle.

If the AFL-CIO Had a Convention, Would Anyone Notice?

Chris Townsend ML Today
Organized and unorganized working people face the growing many-headed threat of Trump and Trumpism. But what are the top AFL-CIO labor “leaders” doing? Beyond public pronouncements, defensive lawsuits, and social media offerings, very little.

Cuba’s Unbroken Spirit and the World’s Silence

Jomo Thomas St. Vincent Times
Every day that Cuba goes without fuel, the energy to keep a modern, civilised society truly functional, our species loses its humanity, and our “civilisation” continues its slow but certain decline.