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Palestine 36 Reclaims a Buried Anti-Colonial Revolt

Annemarie Jacir, Ed Rampell Jacobin
Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present.

This Week in People’s History, Feb 18–24, 2026

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A crowd of civilians confronting a British Army tank during the Irish War of Independence Dublin’s a Tough Battlefield (1921), ¡Karen Silkwood, Presente! (1946), Chaplin’s Anti-Capitalist Masterpiece (1936), 500,000 Dead and Counting (2021), A Hard-Won Victory for Farm Workers (1986), Colonialism Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun (1826)

Silencing the Voice

Amy Bachrach Portside
This January 26 was the first “Australia Day” following October's defeat of landmark constitutional referendum recognizing Australia’s first nations people by enshrining in the Constitution an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament
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