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Part Two: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against Italian Fascism with Suzanne Cope Apr 23, 2025

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Author Suzanne Cope continues teaching Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War.

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Part One: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against Italian Fascism with Suzanne Cope Apr 21, 2025

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Author Suzanne Cope teaches Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War.

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CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Five Apr 20, 2025

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Margaret reads chapter five of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May.

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Part Two: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War Apr 16, 2025

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Jordan from The Dugout continues teaching Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid
Salaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty”
Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937)
“The Good Fight” (Documentary)
Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
ALBA-Valb.org archives
Trussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”
National Archives & Harlem Oral History Project
Kuykendall, Ronald A. "African Blood Brotherhood: Independent Marxism During the Harlem Renaissance." Western Journal of Black Studies 26 (Spring 2002):
African Blood Brotherhood. The Principles of the African Blood Brotherhood. New York: African Blood Brotherhood,
David Motadel, Islam and the European Empires (2014)

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Part One: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War Apr 14, 2025

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Jordan from The Dugout teaches Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

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CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Four Apr 13, 2025

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Margaret reads another chapter from the second book in her Danielle Cain series.

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Part Two: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans Apr 09, 2025

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Margaret continues talking with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.

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Part One: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of François Tosquelles and Saint-Albans Apr 07, 2025

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Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.

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CZM Book Club: Escape, part two Apr 06, 2025

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Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.

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Part Two: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a Dictatorship Apr 02, 2025

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Margaret continues talking to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive.

The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromi
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html

HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam

https://libcom.org/article/1962-novocherkassk-tragedy

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-09284-0_1

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