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History from Below

Video: Moving Out: A Great Migration Conversation

In celebrating Black History Month, the RLS-NYC office was joined by Dr. Carla Dubose (SUNY Westchester), Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. (University at Buffalo), Dr. Peter Cole (Western Illinois University), and Dr. Faustina DuCros (San José State University), for an hour-long discussion on the Great Migration. Some of the when and why questions around the […]

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Transatlantic Left Voices

Teachers on Strike: Lessons from Chicago on How to Fight Back

When newly elected President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers in 1981, he was also firing the first shots in a new offensive against workers in the United States. The new logic of neoliberalism, with its insatiable appetite for low wages and powerless workers, has since guided a series of attacks […]

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