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This Week in People’s History, Jan 9 – 15

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Page 1 of an early issue of La Follette's Weekly Magazine
Fighting the Good Fight (in 1909), Teach Literacy, Go to Jail (1854), Deadly But Very Popular (1964), Pretending to Drain the Swamp (1984), Orgy of Police Brutality (1874), McCarthyism's Downfall (1964), Hitler's Friends in the House of Lords (1934)

Time for a Victory Lap?

Joseph E. Stiglitz The American Prospect
Those who believed inflation would be transitory were proven right, and those who demanded the sacrifice of mass unemployment proven wrong.

The EU Is in Bad Shape, and Left-Wing Forces Are in Crisis

Roberto Musacchio Transform! Europe
We are on the brink of a precipice, which the World risks falling into. We need a radical, left-wing exit route. Italy should contribute in the European elections with an electoral list concentrated on the theme that marks the dividing line: Peace.