Why did thousands seek out this socialist organization; why did they join it; what did they accomplish; what movements did they build; what mistakes did they make; what might today’s generation of activists and socialists learn from them?
In the early 1900s, the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order fought for multiracial democracy and Yiddish culture, building solidarity across ethnic and racial lines — until it was destroyed by the Red Scare. Review of From Popular Front to Cold War
Reader Comments: Voting Rights Still Need Protection; Those Accompanying Trump on His Trip to China; The Art of the Deal - Now Iran; 2026 Future of Care Work Convening - Protecting Care in Times of Disruption - Conference; Cartoons and more...
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Reader Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; U.S. Left History; Trump Blows Up White House, Blows Up Food Budgets, Now Wants to Blow Up World; The Fight Ahead - From Ceasefire to A Just Peace - Meet Standing Together's leaders in New York City; more....
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Repression is certainly in the air, its effects likely to be as chilling as intended: people are afraid and have good reasons to be afraid. Reviews of two recent books on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Long War Against American Communism.
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A hundred years ago, radical Finnish immigrants founded a cooperatively-owned park to escape political repression on Minnesota’s Iron Range. It’s still “a workingman’s paradise.”
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