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Hard Crackers

Noel Ignatiev

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Issue number 3 of Hard Crackers is now available. Go to www.hardcrackers.com for contents, sample articles and information on how to order.

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The way to defend free speech is to exercise it

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev As probably everyone reading this knows, Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has canceled her West Coast tour following threats to her life stimulated by FOX news reports of a talk she gave at Hampshire College ...

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Thoughts on the present situation

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev Trump represents a greater danger to the domination of neoliberal global capital than Sanders did, and its representatives are coming to appreciate that.   Notwithstanding the sentiments of many participants, the โ€œWomenโ€™s Marchโ€ ...

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Legitimacy

Noel Ignatiev

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In declaring Trumpโ€™s presidency illegitimate, Representative John Lewis opened a discussion that may go beyond what he had in mind. Lewis based his statement on the supposed role of Russian hacking in determining the outcome of ...

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Abolitionism: A Study Guide

Noel Ignatiev

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Abolitionism: a Study Guide   By John Garvey and Noel Ignatiev   We think it would be useful to study American abolitionismย as a home-grown radical movement launched in inauspicious times. To further that end, we have ...

CLR James on Abolitionism

Noel Ignatiev

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Lesson of the Hour: Introduction

Noel Ignatiev

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Lesson of the Hour: Introduction ย  By Noel Ignatiev   During the winter of 1860โˆ’61, as South Carolina and other states responded to Lincolnโ€™s election by announcing their intention to secede, the great Abolitionist Wendell Phillips ...

Smashing Kittens

Noel Ignatiev

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By now many people have seen Donald Trumpโ€™s mocking imitation of The New York Times reporter who suffers from a disabling ailment that prevents him from using his arms fully and who asked Trump a question ...

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Garrison and the 2016 Election

Noel Ignatiev

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A friend recently called my attention to an article by William Lloyd Garrison, โ€œOn the Constitution and the Union,โ€ in The Liberator, Dec. 29, 1832. Here is the link: http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1832/12/29/on-the-constitution-and-the-union   Garrison made several points:   ...

A Carnival of Inclusion

Noel Ignatiev

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The Democratic National Convention was a carnival of inclusion: black, white, gay, straight, Christians, Jews, Muslims, cis-gendered and transgenderedโ€”all joined in proclaiming that โ€œnothing can be wrong if it keeps our country strongโ€ (with the implied ...

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