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January 15, 2024

This Week in People’s History, Jan 16–22

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Storefronts covered with signs promoting prohibition

Prohibition Gets Started (in 1919), Slave Owners Get Nervous (1834), Swing Comes to the Opera House (1944), Repression Takes Practice (1934), Nazis Make a Reality of Wage Slavery (1934), Wilmington Occupation Ends (1969), Voting Rights Victory (1964)

December 11, 2022

Let’s Raise a Glass to What Prohibition Accomplished

Mark Lawrence Schrad Politico

On “Repeal Day,” remember that the war against alcohol was ultimately a war against political corruption and unbridled capitalism.

April 5, 2021

The U.S. War on Drugs is Driving the Displacement Crisis

Inge Fryklund Foreign Policy in Focus

Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America.

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February 3, 2016

The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

Josh Feldman and Temma Ehrenfeld Los Angeles Review of Books

How Prohibition helped create today's "War on Drugs" infrastructure.

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