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Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it.

The New Nuclear Reality

Robin Wright The New Yorker
Russia’s war in Ukraine has reawakened fears about the bomb—and endangered the principle of deterrence.

The Poor at the Crossroads

Liz Theoharis TomDispatch
The poor are what Dr. King once called “a new and unsettling force” capable of transforming “our complacent national life.”

Abolition Democracy’s Forgotten Founder

Robin D. G. Kelley Boston Review
While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
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