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Bruce Dixon ¡presente!
We lost a giant today. Bruce A. Dixon died at 2:32 pm with his family in Georgia. I miss his political clarity, his guidance, his candor, his warmth and his humor. Bruce was a legendary organizer. He...
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Sidney Rittenberg (1921-2019): a long-time and remarkable member of the CP in...
Today, the NY Times has an obituary for Rittenberg that is included below so that you won’t have any problems getting past the paper’s paywall. I first became aware of him in 2013 when I reviewed a...
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Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019): an appreciation
Twenty-five years ago, the Marxist left discussed and debated their ideas on an antiquated Internet medium called listserv’s, which are automated mailing lists. About 10 years later the same people...
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Noel Ignatiev: Remembering a Comrade and a Friend
COUNTERPUNCH, NOVEMBER 15, 2015 For all of the opprobrium Facebook deserves, it is still essential for building ties on the left when there are so few opportunities for networking in real space as...
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Richard Greener (1941-2019): a good friend passes on
For regular readers of this blog, you might recall references to Richard Greener over the years. I’ve reviewed his first novel in the Locator series titled “The Knowland Intervention” and conducted...
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Homage to Kevin Coogan
I couldn’t locate a photo of Kevin but since he posted on my blog as Hylozoic Hedgehog, this might suffice Within the past five months, I have lost two of my closest political co-thinkers. On November...
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Neil Davidson (1957-2020): an appreciation
Neil Davidson I just learned that Neil Davidson has died after a year-long battle with brain cancer. At the bottom of this post, I am including the words of his wife Cathy that Sebastian Budgen...
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Notes on the passing of Stephen F. Cohen
This article will be a political assessment of Stephen F. Cohen, who died of lung cancer two days ago rather than an obit. I am including the NY Times obit at the end in order to put my remarks into...
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Michael Perelman, ¡Presente!
Michael Perlman (1939-2020) Yesterday, the New Castle News in Pennsylvania reported that Michael Perelman died on September 21 at the age of 80. I would assume that Michael grew up in New Castle, a...
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Last night at around 10pm I got a phone call from Jess McKenzie informing me that her husband Ernie Tate had finally succumbed to cancer of the pancreas, something Ernie had revealed to me about six...
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