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This Week in People’s History, June 25–July 2

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The album cover of Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
A Successful Experiment (1959), Boycotts Can Work (1959), Hospital Workers Win Big (1969), Malcolm X’s Last Stand (1964), Brilliance Gets Shafted (1954), Throwing Shade on Racism (1989), Hit the Road, Dictator (1944), Nazis Deadly Discipline (1934)

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis

Lisa Song, Illustrations by Max Guther, special to ProPublica ProPublica
The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled.

The Biggest Organizing Wave You Never Heard Of

Chris Townsend ML Today
Virginia is seeing a significant and remarkable expansion of its small but wily labor movement. In a labor movement urgently in need of new union organizing experimentation it would certainly be of value to consider the situation in Virginia.

How Israel Became a Nuclear Power

Emma Claire Foley Jacobin
Israel’s nuclear program is its worst-kept secret. It was made possible through the support of Western nations like France and has thrived due to a cynical attitude toward nonproliferation that has made the world more dangerous.