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Friday Nite Videos | April 24, 2026

Portside Portside
Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections. The Origins of May Day: Working Class Pride and Power. The Navy Gets a Witch-Hunter. Bait | Trailer. The First American City That Will Run Out of Water.

Palestine 36 Reclaims a Buried Anti-Colonial Revolt

Annemarie Jacir, Ed Rampell Convergence
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.

Iran Transformed

Arang Keshavarzian The New York Review of Books
To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.

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Passage to a Better World

Richard Bourke Literary Review
This review examines two new books on the history of revolutions.

Diego Rivera Was the Painter of the Mexican Revolution

Mike Gonzalez Convergence
The Mexican Revolution inspired an extraordinary cultural efflorescence, with painting as its leading art form. The spectacular murals of Diego Rivera, inspired by Mexico’s popular history and culture, are the most remarkable legacy of that period.
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