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Today in History

Eighty-two years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.

Today in History

Today is Saturday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2022. There are 133 days left in the year.

The ruling is an object lesson the class character of the state, the Democratic Party and behind them, the pro-corporate trade unions.

The best answer to price surges is to win pay, benefit, and pension increases. It is the readiest to hand for the working class. We already have organisations built for that purpose. Many of those trade unions already have strike mandates. The deciding factor will be whether those unions unite, accelerate and spread the strikes, as a sprint rather than a marathon.

SURREALIST SABOTAGE AND THE WAR ON WORK. BY ABIGAIL SUSIK. (Manchester University, 2021. 296 pages.)IN A PANTOMIMED SCENE from Charlie Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris (1923), the bon vivant Pierre Revel visits an upscale restaurant’s kitchen to vet the preparation of his meal. Holding an aging pheasant carcass to his nostrils, a chef affirms its quality for the “delighted gourmet,” who, in turn, luxuriates in “the spoiled meat odor as greedily as if it came from a cluster of lilies of the v...

Alain Resnais films, from 'Night and Fog' to 'Stavisky' are being honored with a retrospective at Film Forum.

This is an editorial published by the <em>Bulletin</em>, the newspaper of the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US) on February 24, 1989.

In 1959, a few atheists filed a lawsuit to stop New York's mandatory school prayer, which took place every morning after the Pledge of Allegiance.