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Unity – At Whose Cost?

Noel Ignatiev

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by Noel Ignatiev The Palestinian American Womenโ€™s Association announced that it would boycott the January 20 Womenโ€™s March in Los Angeles. The announcement came after Scarlett Johannson was confirmed as a โ€œSpecial Guest speakerโ€ at the ...

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vote or die

Alabama: “Vote or Die”

Curtis Price

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by Curtis Price The election of Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama December 12th sent shock waves through the political establishment. To put Jonesโ€™s victory in perspective, the last time a Democrat wonย  a Senate race in ...

Date Night in Astoria, Queens

Zhandarka Kurti

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I get out of the cab and find myself in front of a large stone building resembling a foreign embassy, not unlike the ones you find in the upper east side of Manhattan. The words โ€œCasa ...

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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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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:   ...