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Zionist McCarthyism Comes for CUNY

Liza Featherstone Jacobin
Not content to torment the Ivy League, Republicans are seeking authoritarian control over working-class public universities like the City University of New York. The latest salvo: allegedly firing four adjuncts for their support of Palestine.

Tidbits- July 31-Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready To Make Deal With Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims; Keep ICE out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel

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Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready to Make Deal with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again; Keep ICE Out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel

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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.

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.

This Week in People’s History, Mar 26 – Apr 1

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Newspaper headline reporting on a teach-in a Columbia University A Brand-New Protest Format Catches on in a Very Big Way (1965), Wasn’t That a Time? Yes, It Sure Was (1995), A Catchy Name for a Rotten Program (1950), Texas Racists Throw the Book at Student Protesters (1960)

Constitutional Collapse

Aziz Rana Sidecar, blog of New Left Review
Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional politics the country has not seen since the time of FDR.
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