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Orwell As Advocate for Workers and Against Exploitation

Mark Satta The Conversation
That George Orwell, famous as the author Animal Farm and 1984, came to his ideas about freedom via his thinking about work, poverty and democratic socialism, among other themes, may surprise those familiar with only his dystopian fiction

This Week in People’s History, Aug 27-Sep 2, 2025

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The cover of the 1950 Red Channels blacklist-promoting pamphlet Show-Business Witchhunters Hit Paydirt (1950), Jim Crow Justice, Ugly as Sin (1955), Los Angeles Deputies Sow Deadly Chaos (1970), Like a Rolling Stone (1965), What’s In a Name? (2015), This Land Is Your Land . . . (1945), Familiar Sentiments (1945)

The Crypto State

Ramaa Vasudevan, Daniel Finn Jacobin
The Trump White House has helped install the ticking time bomb that is cryptocurrency directly into our economy. When it blows up, the damage will be catastrophic.

Sunday Science: Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization

Mark Blyth, Daniel Driscoll Project Syndicate
The Trump administration is doing everything it can to ensure that fossil fuels remain dominant in the energy mix of the twenty-first century. If it succeeds, the short-term returns to the US will be huge; but the long-term damage to the planet will
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