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The Left’s Crisis Is Not a Vocabulary Problem

Akshay Anand Newsclick
The crisis of the Indian Left is undeniable. The problem, however, is not the Left's failure to invent a new vocabulary, but rather of liberalisation that transformed the very conditions under which politics and aspiration sare now experienced.

Tidbits-Apr 23-Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in UFW Gave Chavez Immunity – Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; “State Ideology” of Zionism; After No Kings-What’s Next

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Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in the UFW Gave Chavez Immunity - Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; "State Ideology" of Zionism; After No Kings: What’s Next; Cartoons

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Young Communists Grow Older

Paul Buhle CounterPunch
This new book, the first of a projected three-volume history, is "the first by activists who grew up, so to speak, within, around, and just beyond the orbit of the CPUSA," writes reviewer Buhle.

Tidbits-Jan. 22- Reader Comments: Greenland; Minnesota; How Did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?; Mutual Aid for Minneapolis-Where To Donate; Solidarity With Minneapolis – March on ICE Profiteers; Jewish Labor Bund, Hidden History of Jewish Anti-Zionism

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Reader Comments: Greenland; Minnesota; How Did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?; Mutual Aid for Minneapolis - Where to Donate; Solidarity with Minneapolis - March on ICE Profiteers; Jewish Labor Bund and the Hidden History of Jewish Anti-zionism; Cartoons

The Communist Folk Singers Who Shaped Bob Dylan

Taylor Dorrell Jacobin
Before Bob Dylan was Bob Dylan, he was a disciple of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk singers — they were blacklisted radicals, shaping American music while staring down the Red Scare.

Knowing Fascism Requires Understanding Economic Forces

Taylor Dorrell Jacobin
Behind the confusion and debates about fascism lies a simple truth: it’s a power game driven by economic elites. Communists recognized that fascism’s form is shaped by class dynamics — an insight we shouldn’t forget.
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