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The Dangerous Class Consciousness of Donald Trump

Stephen F. Eisenman CounterPunch
With the 34 guilty verdicts delivered on Thursday by a New York City jury, Donald J. Trump is now shown to have been plucked by a “seductive priestess,” a Maja named Stormy Daniels.

Southern Worker School Charts Course for Power

Southern Workers Assembly Southern Workers Assembly
Nearly two hundred rank and filers who are developing a movement of workers in the South that can build power to make the anti-union politicians’ fears a reality gathered in Charlotte, NC on May 17 – 19 for the 2024 Southern Worker School.

This Week in People’s History, June 4–10

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Jewish refugees aboard the St. Louis in 1939 Voyage of the Doomed (1939), Two Roads, Two Endings (1989), A Big Step Toward Ending a Long War (1969), Plain English, or Else! (1954), Pity the Poor War Criminal (1974), Protecting Freedom of Speech (1969), No Law Against Just Hanging Out (1999)

Claudia Sheinbaum Is the Next President of Mexico

Zoe Alexandra People's Dispatch
Sheinbaum, the first woman president of Mexico and North America, has vowed to continue the anti-neoliberal project of the “Fourth Transformation” inaugurated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, led by the principle of “Mexican Humanism”.

Integrated Vision

Tom Stevenson London Review of Books
The military protection of Saudi Arabia has been the centrepiece of US power in the region. The US has also committed itself to the protection/support of Israel. America has managed this balancing act without trouble, but it has posed problems.
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