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This Week in People’s History, Apr 2–8, 2025

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At a protest against the War in Vietnam, and large photo of Lyndon Johnson with the caption: War Criminal
LBJ Wouldn’t Give Peace a Chance (1965), A Mob Stands Strong to Defend Justice (1860), March for Women’s Lives (1992), A Rare Benefit of the Great Pandemic (2020), A Brave Bid for Freedom Fails (1760)

Can Europe Stop Trump and Putin?

John Feffer TomDispatch
The world can’t afford a European retreat into a fortress. The European Union must unite with all like-minded countries against the illiberal nationalists who are challenging universal values and international law.

What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly

intan O’Toole The New Yorker
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.