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A Chorus of Defiance

David Cortright Boston Review
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the of World War II on the European continent. This week is also fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end. What are the lessons for today from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance

Tidbits – May 8- Reader Comments: 50 Years After Vietnam War End; Largest May Day in US; Birth Rates Falling; Israel War Cabinet Approved Plan To Seize Entire Gaza Strip; “It’s Time” People’s Peace Summit of Palestinians and Jews in Jerusalem; More

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Reader Comments: 50 Years After Vietnam War' End; Largest May Day in US; Birth Rates Falling; Israel War Cabinet approved plan to seize entire Gaza Strip; “It’s Time” People’s Peace Summit of Palestinians and Jews in Jerusalem and 15 cities worldwide

Zohran Mamdani Is Laser-Focused on an Affordable New York

Liza Featherstone Jacobin
With local and national elites indifferent to working-class struggles over the costs of housing, childcare, groceries, and more, socialist NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani is finding success by putting affordability at the heart of his campaign.

A Crisis Is No Time for Amateurs

Tom Nichols The Atlantic
The unfolding conflict between Pakistan and India needs to be handled with the utmost care and competence.

Christopher Hill, Pioneer of History From Below

Raphael Magarik Jacobin
Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, he recovered the history of vanquished radicals like the Levellers and the Diggers and linked them to our own time.
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