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He joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in 1936, as a Jewish teenager from Brooklyn. This year, I retraced his steps.
Once a utopian getaway for children of socialists and left-wing organizers, the camp remains an essential haven for ‘weird Jews’
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Crime writer Ed Lacy died 45 years ago. Few knew he was also a New Yorker contributor and communist darling.
David Brooks cites objectionable article in related magazine
The Spanish writer Jorge Semprún, who died in June, survived Buchenwald and had a love-hate relationship with Communism in postwar Europe. A longtime friend remembers his star power and derring-do.
Doctrinal disputes impede progress yet again
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