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Is the near absence of a recent history of Second World women’s organizing simply a by-product of the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European socialism? A by-product of Western capitalism’s “victory”?
Kristen Ghodsee: The erasure of East European women’s activism together with that of the activism of their socialist allies in the Global South happened both because the East collapsed and because the West declared victory and could subsequently control and direct the historical narrative.
The 1990s ushered in a period of utter chaos and social, political, and economic upheaval in Eastern Europe. Many activists and scholars left the region to work or study in the West where the totalitarian paradigm still had a strong grip on the historiography of the Cold War.
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Harlem’s 1946 fight against South African starvation foreshadowed anti-apartheid struggle February 24, 2021 1:04 PM CDT By W. Alphaeus Hunton
Food is piled up on the front of a stage as Alphaeus Hunton addresses 4,000 people at Abyssinian Baptist Church to open the South African famine relief campaign in 1946. Josh Lawrence, Paul Robeson, Rev. Shelton Bishop, and Adam C. Powell Sr. are seated behind the cans and bags of food. | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / New York Public Library, Astor | At right, Daily Worker coverage of the event. / People s World Archives
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Alphaeus Hunton: A life devoted to equality, liberation, and internationalism February 26, 2021 2:42 PM CDT By Tony Pecinovsky
Alphaeus Hunton, second from left in the foreground, along with Petitioners Julian Mayfield, Alice Windom, W.A. Jeanpierre, and Maya Angelou Make, deliver a petition to the U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana, in 1963. | New York Public Library
In a November 1950 article in Paul Robeson’s newspaper
Freedom, the scholar-activist Alphaeus Hunton noted that “the most reactionary minority of the American people,” the U.S. ruling class, “has advanced from its role of silent partner of the Western European imperialist powers.” No longer “content with arming and financing their wars against the colonial revolutionaries,” the ruling