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The Du Bois Doctrine

Zachariah Mampilly Foreign Affairs
Du Bois is rightly venerated for his work on civil rights. But by discarding him, the American foreign policy establishment robbed itself of one of the twentieth century’s most perceptive and prescient critics of capitalism and imperialism.

Parole Commission: It’s Long Past the Time to FREE Leonard Peltier

Levi Rickert Native News Online
"We are hoping and praying that the parole commission will grant Leonard parole so that he can go back to his people on the Turtle Mountain Reservation to be with his loved ones to serve to be with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren."

An Amish-Chinese Mushroom Collaboration

Laura Reiley Ambrook Research
A business born of necessity and the pandemic, Amish Agriculture Inc and its mushrooms are finding fertile ground. The collaboration, rooted in urgency and with high-tech assistance, is believed to be the first formal Amish-Chinese business venture

France’s New Popular Front Has a Plan To Govern

Harrison Stetler Jacobin
France’s snap elections are widely seen as an opportunity for Marine Le Pen’s far right. But the left-wing parties’ Nouveau Front Populaire has a real possibility of stopping her — and it’s laid out a radical program to rebuild France’s democracy.

There’s a Reason Trump Has Friends in High Places

Jamelle Bouie The New York Times
Some business leaders see “the threat to capitalism from the Democrats is more concerning than the threat to democracy from Trump.” Biden’s efforts to regulate markets have led them to look past their misgivings about the Jan. 6th insurrection.

This Week in People’s History, June 18–24

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Mural by Diego Rivera depicting the CIA's 1954 overthrow of Guatemala's government
CIA Carries United Fruit’s Water (1954), “Radical Plot” Gets Saber-Rattling Response (1919), A Deadly Managua Roadblock (1979), Murders Most Foul (1964), DC Metro Cover-Up (2009), Mournful Gallery of Loss (1969), Cruel Enslaver Robert E. Lee (1859)

Unions Must Seize the Moment To Organize the South

Ben Carroll Jacobin
After a victory in Tennessee and a loss in Alabama, the UAW is pressing onward in its fight to organize the notoriously anti-union South. The fate of Southern workers — and all workers — depends on the movement’s willingness to think big.