Robert Bechert, CWI International Secretariat (Originally published on socialistworld.net) November 9 is a momentous date in German history. On this date Robert Blum, one of the leaders of the 1848 revolution in German-speaking countries, was executed...
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Read More →Originally published by the Socialist Party of England and Wales. In the film Men in Black the eponymous characters press a button and erase your memory. Reading the obituaries about the death of Playboy founder...
Read More →Robert Bechert, CWI International Secretariat (Originally published on socialistworld.net) November 9 is a momentous date in German history. On this date Robert Blum, one of the leaders of the 1848 revolution in German-speaking countries, was executed...
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