arts and culture
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Book review: ‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’ by Jimmy Carter
Ex-president Jimmy Carter’s new book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," released just after the November 2006 election, has caused a big…
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A critique best read with Chávez’s revolutionary example
In the fervor following the victorious 1917 socialist revolution in Russia, a new form of diplomacy was born. Men and…
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Survivor: Reality TV as racist propaganda
The newest season of CBS’s "reality" TV series Survivor, which premiered on Sept. 14, has sunk to the lowest depths…
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Commemorating the life of Federico García Lorca
August 19, 2006, marked the 70th anniversary of the assassination of Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca. A voice…
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The reverend Pedro Pietri
On view until September 10 at El Museo del Barrio, deep inside Spanish Harlem, is the exhibition “Between the Lines:…
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Polls show U.S. ‘patriotism’ in decline
A nationwide poll commissioned by the AARP Bulletin, a publication of the American Association of Retired People, conducted a few…
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Sports and the struggle for socialism
Why is the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a party of dedicated communist revolutionaries, putting a sports column on-line? Many…
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‘Made in Palestine’
For the first time in the United States, the works of contemporary artists from Palestine have been brought together in…
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Cuba’s Santiago Alvarez, cinematographer and revolutionary
One of the greatest cultural achievements of the 1959 Cuban revolution has been its remarkable cinema. Prior to the revolution,…
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Communism and Black resistance in the 1930s South
“Hammer and Hoe,” a 1990 book written by historian Robin D.G. Kelley, chronicles the development of a communist movement in…
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