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Congress is pushing absurd anti-communist propaganda into schools as young Americans increasingly reject capitalism — and this is an attempt to lay the ground for attacks on socialist nations and US unions too, warns JOHN WOJCIK

THE US Congress recently passed a horrific piece of legislation calling for the infusion into the nation’s public school system of a curriculum that teaches middle and high school students about the alleged evils of communism, including the absurd claim that communists have killed 100 million people.
The curriculum is to be provided by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a collection of well-funded extreme right operatives who have never supported the fight for democracy or the rights of workers.
Among the foundation’s more outstanding scandals was the building of a memorial to the “victims” of communism in Canada recently that included the names of more than 300 fascists engraved onto it.
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