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Another ‘DAY THIS WEEK’ … Roque Dalton, poet, communist revolutionary
May 10, marks the anniversary of the assassination and death of the Salvadorian poet and revolutionary Roque Dalton
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The Miami Showband massacre: A cover-up in plain sight
It’s a strange thing, scrolling through the options on Netflix and seeing a documentary on the Miami Showband
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“We Shall Overcome”. Pete Seeger on What Would Have Been His 100th Birthday
It was 100 years ago, May 3, that the late folk singer and activist Pete Seeger was born. In 2004, Seeger came into the Democracy Now! Watch the full interview and Democracy Now’s full archive of interviews with Seeger
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“Someone Else’s War – when your child joins the war against Isis”
I joined the YPJ in March of last year. I wanted to support the revolution and fight and join also the weaponised fight against the forces of fascism and the enemies of the revolution
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Another Soul on IceTurkey’s Ongoing Attack on ‘Freedom’
Ahmet Altan, 69 year old writer…is in cell in Silivri Prison, on the outskirts of Istanbul
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Butcher’s dozen: The crimes of Bloody Sunday 47 years on
Shock and disbelief is the reaction to the decision of the Northern Ireland Prosecution Service to charge only one British Paratrooper in connection with the murder of 14 innocent civil rights marchers on Derry’s “Bloody Sunday,” January 30, 1972
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The revolution that could have changed world history
Chris Harman’s The Lost Revolution remains the single best introductory book in English on the German Revolution of 1918–1923.
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“We have work to do”. ‘Only in Rojava’, for the people of Rojava
Irish poet Séamas Carraher once more puts into words, the feelings and emotions difficult to express with the articulated sound
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Christmas Gift: 6 Poems by Asmaa Azaizeh
Palestinian poet Asmaa Azaizeh was born in 1985 in the village of Daburieh, in the Lower Galilee, Palestine. Her poems have since been translated into English, German, Spanish, Farsi, Swedish, Italian, Dutch and Hebrew
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E-BOOK ‘New Thinking for the British Economy’
‘New Thinking for the British Economy’ – a new eBook published by openDemocracy – brings together leading thinkers to outline the broad pillars of a new post-neoliberal agenda
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