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This Week in People’s History, Apr 16–22, 2025

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Demonstrators attempting to block a police motorcycle in downtown Washington, DC What First Amendment? (2000), “Freedom Now in Vietnam” (1965), Saying ‘No’ to Colonialism (1955), If They Want War, Let Them Have It (1775), Impunity for Racist Threats (1965), McCarthyism Flops on Broadway (1955), Earth Day’s a Smash Hit (1970)

Pakistan Demands Debt Cancellation and Climate Justice

Tanupriya Singh Socialist Project
Holding the government accountable for its lack of preparedness is crucial. However, given the sheer scale of the impact of the climate crisis on the Global South, talking about adaptation has its limitations.

Dismantling Bretton Woods To Pay the Climate Bill

Tina Gerhardt The Nation
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending. She put forward the Bridgetown Agenda would suspend IMF debt payments for the poorest countries.

books

Yanis Varoufakis’s Doomed Fight Against Austerity

Emmett Rensin The New Republic
This volume is an insider's account of Greece's recent struggle to preserve the general welfare of its people in the fact of the belt-tighening demands of the managers of the international financial system. Reviewer Rensin offers an assessment.
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