From JacobinSN Your first chapter focuses on the post-revolutionary period and the importance for the young Soviet state for building ties with the colonial world. The Bolsheviks … [Read more...] about How African and Asian Writers Found a Soviet Audience
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Advocacy Groups Slam 'Shameful' Deportation of ICE Medical Abuse Survivors
From CommonDreamsPublished on Friday, November 13, 2020byCommon DreamsAdvocacy Groups Slam 'Shameful' Deportation of ICE Medical Abuse Survivors "Congress must investigate and immediately put an end to this injustice," said one attorney. byBrett Wilkins, staff writer 0 CommentsProtesters march during an Abolish ICE demonstration in Philadelphia … [Read more...] about Advocacy Groups Slam 'Shameful' Deportation of ICE Medical Abuse Survivors
50+ Organizations Demand President-Elect Biden and Senate Democrats Reject Corporate Nominees for Cabinet Positions
From CommonDreamsWASHINGTON - Today, Demand Progress and the Revolving Door Project – joined by more than fifty prominent progressive and good government organizations – called on President-elect Joe Biden as well as Democratic Senators and Senators-elect to reject corporate executives, lobbyists, and prominent corporate consultants for cabinet positions. The … [Read more...] about 50+ Organizations Demand President-Elect Biden and Senate Democrats Reject Corporate Nominees for Cabinet Positions
US Journalist Demands to Know: “Am I on the Kill List?”
From CommonDreamsWASHINGTON - An American journalist will challenge his apparent inclusion in the US’s classified ‘Kill List’ in federal court on Monday, 16 November 2020. Bilal Abdul Kareem is a Peabody award-winning African American journalist who alleges that he has been targeted for assassination by the US because of his work covering the conflict in Syria. … [Read more...] about US Journalist Demands to Know: “Am I on the Kill List?”
Fighting the Pandemic Can’t Wait for Inauguration Day
From CommonDreamsScience is returning after serving a four-year sentence as a political prisoner. Science to fight COVID-19 is returning to the White House after ten months of President Trump’s self-admitted campaign to downplay the lethality of a virus that in a few days will have killed a quarter-million Americans—about 80 times the number of victims killed in … [Read more...] about Fighting the Pandemic Can’t Wait for Inauguration Day