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From the 16th century to the last words of George Floyd: Margaret Prescod talks with Gerald Horne about the history of enslavement

From the 16th century to the last words of George Floyd: Margaret Prescod talks with Gerald Horne about the history of enslavement

February 20, 2024

Dr. Gerald Horne, a longtime guest and friend of Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod, has released a new book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. The apocalypse makes reference to the time period in which African and Indigenous people were enslaved, tortured and killed by the millions. In his book, Dr. Horne revisits the history of the 1500s, a century often overlooked when it comes to colonial history….

“Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Not Only Cruel, They Also Have an Economic Cost”–David Wilson, via Truthout

“Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Not Only Cruel, They Also Have an Economic Cost”–David Wilson, via Truthout

February 20, 2024

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the government agency that processes visas, green cards and citizenship applications, claims it’s going broke. USCIS officials are threatening to furlough some 13,400 employees as early as August 30, after initially planning the measure for August 3. The furloughs would add to what was already a huge backlog in application processing, creating a disaster for tens of thousands of immigrant applicants. As many as 126,000 people already approved for citizenship may not be naturalized in time to register for the November elections….

Counterfire reviews Cal Winslow’s “Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919”

Counterfire reviews Cal Winslow’s “Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919”

February 20, 2024

“On Thursday February 6, 1919, at 10:00 am, Seattle’s workers struck. The Seattle general strike is the only general strike in US history. It lasted for five days during which nothing in Seattle moved. Hotel guests were politely informed that room service and restaurant facilities would resume after the strike. Telephone operators, women’s barbers, Japanese service workers, lumbermen, shingle weavers, longshoremen, and just about everybody else, came out on strike in support of Seattle’s shipyard workers….”

Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism considers “Cuban Health Care”

February 20, 2024

“This book gives an excellent account of the nature, history and achievements of the Cuban health system. It is fairly lengthy, quite detailed, heavily documented, and easy to read. It has implications and lessons that go well beyond the health of people, to the nature of healthy social systems, dramatically evident in the comparison the book gives between Cuba and the USA…”

“From settler colony to slaveholder republic”–Gerald Horne Talks to Democratic Left

“From settler colony to slaveholder republic”–Gerald Horne Talks to Democratic Left

February 20, 2024

Magro: The 1619 Project—and much of your work—puts settler colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy at the center of the unfolding history of the United States. It seems straightforward, so how do we account for resistance to the Project among some historians?
Horne: The 1619 Project stirred controversy in part because it unsettled the widely accepted “creation myth” of the founding of the United States.

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