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Revolution in Brazil, Revolution Here
Brazil is a country of many records. It is the largest country in Latin America and its largest economy. But hidden behind its prized modern cities and a matured tourism industry is a seemingly infinite green interior. It has the largest rain forest in the world, and on each inch of its growing corpse, the…
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An Artist of the People – A Nova Democracia
We republish this article from Brazilian democratic and revolutionary newspaper A Nova Democracia (The New Democracy in English). Founded by a mix of veteran revolutionaries from the 1970s, worker and peasant leaders, as well as progressive intellectuals, A Nova Democracia has been the leading voice for the Brazilian revolutionary movement for more than two decades.…
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The Comintern Resolutions on Black Nationhood: A Century On
Today, just like in the 1920s, the US revolutionary movement grapples with the important question: what is the status of Black people in the United States, and what tasks are revolutionaries facing? Some, like the modern revisionist CPUSA, argue that the Black nation either has never existed or has dissolved, due to one reason or…
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The 1928 And 1930 Comintern Resolutions on The Black National Question in the United States
I. THE 1928 COMINTERN RESOLUTION ON THE NEGRO QUESTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 1. The industrialization of the South, the concentration of a new Negro working class population in the big cities of the East and North, and the entrance of the Negroes into the basic industries on a mass scale, create the possibility…
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On the Passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
In 1956, the West African poet David Diop wrote these powerful words in the pages of Présence Africaine: We know that some people wish to see us abandon militant poetry (a term that makes the “purists” sneer) in favor of exercises in style and formal discussions. Their hopes will be disappointed because for us poetry…
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