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Tariq Ali on the Ukraine mess and the UK peace movement, and labor news from all over

Christine Emeran, an advocate for free expression talks about the push to ban books, especially those about racism, sexuality and gender.

These laws require educators to lie to students through omission, euphemism, and sanitized accounts of the past and present. Wherever possible, educators should challenge them and, if necessary, defy them.

Since his early days in the underground comix scene, Spiegelman has reveled in ‘saying the unsayable’ and subverting convention

A dress rehearsal for fascism, or did we just miss the opening credits?

Info tech leaving its mark everywhere

Hey kids, comics! Welcome to 2022

"These books are not there for anything else other than to affirm and show the kids their love for who they are, and that there are other people out there like them, that they are not alone."

From culture war to civil war?