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McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again?

Paul Buhle Portside
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.

Tidbits – Apr.24 – Reader Comments: Pope Francis’Message for Peace and Gaza; Rise of End Times Fascism; Trump’s Thirst for One-Man Rule; New McCarthyism; Webinars; 50 Years Since End of Vietnam War; Labor Can’t Fight MAGA, Without Fighting Racism;

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Reader Comments: Pope Francis' Message for Peace and Gaza; Rise of End Times Fascism; Trump’s Thirst for One-Man Rule; New McCarthyism Started by Liberals; Webinars; 50 Years Since End of Vietnam War; Labor Can't Fight MAGA, Without Fighting Racism;

The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals

Jeet Heer The Nation
Trumpism is only Bidenism carried to its logical conclusion. Joe Biden was in many ways heir to the militaristic liberalism of Wilson and Truman—especially visible in his efforts to revive the military Keynesianism of the Cold War.

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Tony Kahn: Boy Fugitive in the Cold War

Paul Buhle Portside
This is a poignant tale of remembering parents in trouble, careers dashed and of steady FBI harassment. The end is not happy, except that the boy survives and makes his own life as an admired cultural commentator on radio.

This Land Is Co-Op Land

Amie Stager In These Times
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.”

There Were Lynchings in the North, Too

James Barron The New York Times
An NYU project examines the history of lynching's after the Civil War, including one in New York State. Billie Holiday sang a disturbing ballad called “Strange Fruit” for the first time in 1939, referred to lynching's in the South, and also the North

This Week in People’s History, Mar 5–11

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Engraved image of the 1770 Boston Massacre If This Be Treason (in 1774), War Is Such an Ugly Word (1919), U.S. Thumbs Nose at International Law (1984), International Women's Day! (1914), Joe McCarthy's Dam Cracks (1954), Whose Streets? Our Streets! (1969), Big Win for Miners' Health (1969)

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Hollywood Is a Union Town, but the History Is Complicated

Steven Wishnia The Indypendent
The American movie industry has been one of the most consistently unionized sectors of the economy since the 1930s — but to achieve that, workers had to overcome “the iron fist of the moguls” and organized crime, says historian Gerald Horne
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