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The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane

Bill Meyer Hollywood Progressive
An opening scene in the documentary shows Dane flipping through the pages of a massive looseleaf binder that contains her entire FBI Red Squad files.

A Class in Politics

Edwin F. Ackerman Jacobin
How AMLO turned an anti-corruption campaign into an opportunity for economic redistribution.

This Week in People’s History, Jan 1–7

Portside
Cartoon re carbon dating -- Lump of coal chatting with a diamond
Too Good To Be True (1950), What’s Worse Than One Palmer Raid? (1920), Protest Genocide and Go To Jail (1895), Great Society=Great Hypocrisy (1965), The Big City's Calling (1920), A Writing Star Is Born (1935), Getting Elected Doesn’t Cut It (1920)

How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism

Alex Caputo-Pearl Convergence
Labor must adopt an intensified ‘Block and Build’ strategy for the coming years as it organizes broad labor, community, and political alliances against authoritarianism.