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The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors

Eric Foner The New York Review of Books
The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom were better below deck than over land.

“Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime

Ben Burgis Jacobin
Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.