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Decisive action by Red Guards swept the board
JOHN ELLISON on what actually happened through the future-setting days of October 1917
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Natalia Marques looks at last week's ruling that Khalil can be deported and its implications
We are not here to advocate for the arms industry or its CEOs, writes STEVE HANDFORD, and that means we must take a stand against the government’s spending on war
Educators must fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children
Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
IN TEN Days That Shook the World, US socialist journalist John Reed set down, in a classic narrative of startling vitality, his personal experience of the days straddling the seizure of political power in Petrograd on Wednesday, November 7, 1917 by the Bolshevik Party led by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin.
The “seizure of power” involved relatively little violence — much of it was a “taking” without opposition.
Petrograd, then the seat of Russia’s government and until the war with Germany called St Petersburg, was won easily.
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