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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 05/10/2026
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Preface & Two Reviews of The Bible and Socialism (1904)
From the International Socialist Review and Eugene Debs
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 05/10/2026
Happy birthday, Rev. George Washington Woodbey (b. October 5, 1854)
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THE BLACK PRESS & Rev. George Washington Woodbey
George Woodbey, Black Newspapers, and Black History
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 21/09/2026
A column in the Kansas City Defender from my friend and comrade Andrew Hairston. @kcdefender.bsky.social @smashmammon.bsky.social @socialismconference.org
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Racial Capitalism Broke My Family. The Church Basement Put It Back Together.
Minister Andrew Hairston, Baptist minister and Austin DSA co-chair, on the family he lost in court, the Black socialist preachers George and Annie Woodbey, and why Black grief belongs in the pews and ...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 14/08/2026
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AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk | Derecka Purnell
Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Read the rest of Vincent's piece in our new issue: hammerandhope.org/article/supr...
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The Supreme Court Blesses the Destruction of Black Electoral Power
The court’s conservative supermajority has gutted what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 15/06/2026
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$50 for 50 Years
By Callaloo Foundation Inc
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 02/06/2026
Public health officials and jail experts said the unprecedented number of suicide deaths is an indication that authorities are failing to properly oversee the detention of tens of thousands of immigrants swept up in the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation strategy.
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ICE Detainees Are Dying by Suicide at an ‘Alarming; Rate, an AP Investigation Finds
An Associated Press investigation found that at least 10 detainees have died by suicide since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 27/05/2026
It's Du Bois not DuBois and you're probably saying it wrong. Also fun story about Nixon, the Du Bois Clubs, and The Boys Club.
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PSA: It is W.E.B. Du Bois, not “DuBois” (or worse “DeBois”) yall. And if you are pronouncing it “the French way" and correcting people when they don't: stop. "Du” as in "dew” or “doo diddly." “B...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 23/05/2026
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Pan-Africanism and African Liberation
YouTube video by Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 21/05/2026
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Common Ruins | Long-Haul Mag
In the fall of 1984, when he was a new doctoral student at Harvard, Noel Ignatiev submitted an essay for an independent study. Entitled “Present Depths,” the paper surveyed the rapid and cataclysmic c...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 17/05/2026
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Immigrant Defense & the Democratic Party in Hands Off New York City
The following account is an activist’s report of her experiences and frustrations in joining the immigrant rights defense network Hands Off New York City (HO NYC), where the Upper Eastside ac…
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 15/05/2026
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"Attention Can Be a Potent Form of Love": Tramaine Suubi on Ugandan Poetry, Diaspora, and the Collective Act of Survival
Tramaine Suubi is an Ugandan-American poet, editor, and multidisciplinary writer whose debut collection phases and sophomore collection stages, have announced her as one of the most urgent voices in c...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/05/2026
For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across Omaha’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get a blood test before kindergarten. But not Nebraska. With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
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Omaha Is Home to a Massive Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren’t Tested for Lead.
For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across the city’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get ...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 14/05/2026
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The Public Intellectual in History - Journal #163
Tithi Bhattacharya shows that twentieth-century revolutions in the Global South tended to be led by intellectuals, not by economic elites, as in the Global North.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 02/05/2026
Meet Sioux City's local Black author and historian: Jim Tillman blackiowanews.com/meet-sioux-c...
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Meet Sioux City's local Black author and historian: Jim Tillman – Black Iowa News
Telling Black stories. Author Jim Tillman has deep roots in Sioux City, Iowa, and he has made it his mission to shepherd Black history there.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 21/04/2026
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On the Meaning of ‘All Power to the Soviets!’: Was the October Revolution a Bait-and-Switch Operation? - Historical Materialism
All Power to the Soviets! (Vsia vlast sovetam!) is one of the most famous political slogans of all time. But what exactly did this slogan mean? What did the Bolsheviks say when they explained and defe...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 16/04/2026
Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal
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Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal
Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot g...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 15/04/2026
Justice for Vicente.
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‘Nothing more than propaganda’: Lawsuit alleges Sioux City officer involved shooting was unjustified, released video was edited
The shooting was ruled to be justified by the Iowa AG, but the man’s family is indicating he posed no threat when he was fatally wounded.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/04/2026
The History of the Young Lords of Chicago
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The History of the Young Lords of Chicago
The Young Lords were formed in 1959 by seven youths. At that time many Puerto Ricans were getting beaten up by white gangs in the area, so the seven formed their own gang for protection. The main p…
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 30/03/2026
Quentin Deluermoz, The Paris Commune: A Global History - Verso, May 2026
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Quentin Deluermoz, The Paris Commune: A Global History – Verso, May 2026
Quentin Deluermoz, The Paris Commune: A Global History – Verso, May 2026 The Paris Commune as world revolutionary event and laboratory for republican and socialist ideas  In 1871 and over the…
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 26/03/2026
A book.
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Exploring Marx for the USA
Karl Marx in America Andrew Hartman The University of Chicago Press, 2025 594 pages, $39 hardcover. ANDREW HARTMAN’S KARL Marx in America intends to probe “the meaning of Karl Marx in A…
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 08/03/2026
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Exploring Black History of the Western Canadian Prairies: Community-Engaged Archaeology at the John Ware Homestead (EePo-29) - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
By preserving and celebrating Black heritage sites and telling their stories, archaeology can revise history in a way that includes the stories of the diverse individuals and communities who contribut...
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 04/03/2026
I’m worrying about the boomers with AI & political disinfo now. They love these political AI memes across the political spectrum & they’re fooled by fake videos & fake photos & fake news. They are seriously getting incapacitated from being to make real political decisions grounded in what happening.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 04/03/2026
The Beginning Comes After The End Don’t miss @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in conversation with @billmckibben.bsky.social, hosted by @thirdactorg.bsky.social Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend:
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Topic Rebecca Solnit Discusses "The Beginning Comes After the End" With Bill McKibben
Third Act Advisor Rebecca Solnit discusses her latest book The Beginning Comes After the End, with Bill McKibben, Founder of Third Act Her latest book is a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and ...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 04/03/2026
Dorrien's views on "democratic socialism" and his interpretations/narrative arguments are questionable. But his writing, research, and books serious, extensive, and valuable. READ more & write fewer puff pieces naming "angry" Reverdy Ransom "a pioneer in applying social ethics..." 🤦
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 04/03/2026
“Karl Marx with a host of armour bearers has proclaimed deliverance and emancipation to the workers of the world. So let us unite and take and own the industries and operate them for our own benefit.” - Mary E Woodbey, Chicago Daily Socialist, 19 January 1909.
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Mary E. Woodbey
Mary E Woodbey, "The World That Suffers," Chicago “The World That Suffers," Chicago Daily Socialist, 19 January 1909.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 01/03/2026
Donate and or support by sharing. Thank you 🙏
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Donate to Urgent Legal Aid for Adrian's Safe Return Home, organized by Austin Smith
EN: Adrian lives locally with his family in the Twin Cities. He came to t… Austin Smith needs your support for Urgent Legal Aid for Adrian's Safe Return Home
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 26/02/2026
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UT's restructuring makes Texas less inclusive and more divided | Opinion
A recent announcement to effectively end Mexican American Studies and related fields of study at UT came without meaningful discussion with those most affected, Alicia Perez-Hodge writes.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 14/02/2026
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Power, Slavery, and Capital: An Interview with Jennifer L. Morgan - AAIHS
In today’s post, editors of Global Black Thought, interview Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan about her research and writing. Dr. Morgan, a 2025 McArthur Fellow, is Professor of History in the department of Soci...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 10/02/2026
Starts tomorrow and I can't wait.
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Cedric Robinson's An Anthropology of Marxism with Steven Osuna (Part 1)
YouTube video by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 10/02/2026
‘Reorganizing the International’ by Eugene V. Debs from National Rispsaw. Vol. 12 No. 10. December, 1915. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/02/10/r...
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‘Reorganizing the International’ by Eugene V. Debs from National Rispsaw. Vol. 12 No. 10. December, 1915.
Debs responds to the Zimmerwald Manifesto, warmly greeting the process of rebuilding an international worthy of the name in the aftermath of 1914’s historic and irreversible betrayal. ‘Reorga…
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 09/02/2026
Just saw someone refer to "the silent majority" as the "alt-middle" in a comment and now I'm depressed.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 09/02/2026
Support the comrades at @abolitionschool.bsky.social
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Donate to Go All in for Abolition School 2026!, organized by Geo Maher
Go All in for Abolition School in 2026! We’re gonna be honest with you: Abolition S… Geo Maher needs your support for Go All in for Abolition School 2026!
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 09/02/2026
‘Do not be passive. Write. Your life in mine, mill, and farm is of deathless significance in the history of the world.’
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Go Left, Young Writers!
A century ago, a socialist magazine published a manifesto calling for workers to pick up the pen, heralding the dawn of America’s proletarian literary movement. Our society’s need for working-class wr...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 05/02/2026
Support Moayed in Building “Catchup” — A Free Work & Study Space for Gaza chuffed.org/project/moay...
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Support Moayed in Building “Catchup” — A Free Work & Study Space for Gaza
Hello Everyone,
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Katie Stairs @liveforlovessake.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
In solidarity with all of us standing up for our neighbors right now, @haymarketbooks.org is giving away 3 ebooks for free. Spread the word, if you can! www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-fr...
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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 02/02/2026
Re the headline: Two things can be true at the same time.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 02/02/2026
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My Elsewheres | Nell Irvin Painter
I’m a Black American woman who was formed in the twentieth century, amid the cold war and racial segregation that was entrenched even in the Bay Area. But
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 02/02/2026
Very sad.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 24/01/2026
Do at least the bare minimum (this) and then do more if you aren't already doing something.
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Chuck Schumer: STOP ICE NOW
After another murder by federal agents in Minneapolis, we need ICE out of our cities and abolished. Corporate Democrats have been standing by and letting ICE terrorize our communities, tear apart fam...
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 24/01/2026
Mourn. Organize.
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.wlrn.org/government-p... A sanitized, impoverished Intro to Sociology course.
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Florida escalates its battle on sociology with new curriculum, textbook. Professors push back
FIU faculty allege that new state mandates for an Introduction to Sociology course amount to an attack on academic freedom and censorship of the discipline. "There are no discussions of systemic or st...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/01/2026
he’s literally rotting
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 09/01/2026
Anyone else going to Cincinnati in March for this? Presenting a paper, "Tracing & Digging for George Woodbey and the Black Socialist Tradition" for the panel "Underground Black Radicalisms." Let's link up!
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Home | C19underground
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 01/01/2026
Help Moayed’s Family Survive War and Displacement in Gaza
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Help Moayed’s Family Survive War and Displacement in Gaza
Hello Everyone,
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 30/12/2025
"The world was cleaved in two... between those who...resisted imperialism in all its forms, and those who did not. This, too, is the legacy he leaves us with: a resonant reminder that all of us, whatever community we belong to, have the same duty to fight colonialism wherever we encounter it."
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The Life and Legacy of Sion Assidon
For the Moroccan Jewish leftist, the decolonization of his homeland and the liberation of Palestine were inextricably entwined.
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 30/12/2025
Finally read *that* recent Vivek Chibber interview in Jacobin...it was worse than I could have imagined.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/12/2025
anyone taught by wurman should ask the university of minnesota law school for a refund
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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 30/12/2025
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Help Moayed’s Family Survive War and Displacement in Gaza
Hello Everyone,
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