Archive of Jim Plank
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Noam Chomsky in Chicago
Noam Chomsky recently spoke in Chicago.
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“Some people call us heroes”
The Watsonville Canning strike of 1985-87 was a dramatic show of the power of women workers, whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement.
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Victor Serge, The Unconquered
William Giraldi for The Baffler
Some writers are destined to have two deaths—the first in life, and the second in memory. The lucky ones can be resurrected from that second death by cultural circumstance and the aid of overseeing angels, irked by injustice, believing these Lazaruses should be helped from their tombs. In 2004, Susan Sontag opened her essay “Unextinguished” with this query, much to the present case: “How to explain the obscurity of one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes, Victor Serge?”
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Capitalism is the crisis