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Frida Berrigan: Give Your Children a Conscience Instead of Material Possessions
Frida Berrigan, author and daughter of two legendary antiwar activists, talks to Truthout.
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On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood
In her book, Frida Berrigan gives advice on how to integrate child rearing into fighting for change.
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Climate Change Is Violence
Climate change is global-scale violence against places and species, as well as against human beings.
Execution of Paris Communards Foreshadowed Mass Murders of 20th Century
John Merriman speaks with Truthout about the Paris Commune of 1871, an armed uprising that rejected oligarchical government.
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Remembering the Paris Commune: When Workers and Women Rose Up Against the Oligarchy
Many historians regard the Paris Commune as the precedent for subsequent uprisings against the plutocracy and ruling elite.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: All Labor Has Dignity
In his introduction to the newly published anthology of MLK's speeches and writings, Cornel West writes, “This book unearths a radical King that we can no longer sanitize.”
John Pilger Interview: White Australians Would Like Aboriginal People to Disappear
John Pilger speaks to Truthout about his new documentary about the brutal conquest and continued racist treatment of the aboriginal people in Australia.
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Lani Guinier on “The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America“
An excerpt from Lani Guinier's introduction to “The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America.”
Robert McChesney: We Need to Advocate Radical Solutions to Systemic Problems
The author discusses net neutrality, his hopes for a post-capitalist democracy in the United States and more.
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Robert W. McChesney: “Capitalism as We Know It Has Got to Go“
Robert McChesney continues his argument for a press that does not represent the interests of the oligarchy.