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Knowing Pete Seeger in East Germany
VICTOR GROSSMAN recalls the times he met the great singer-songwriter and how he touched all he met
The left has become too reliant on persuasion and too detached from the workplaces and communities it seeks to represent, argues NICK TROY
The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has had far-reaching consequences, including a boost to Pakistan’s regional standing, argues ROGER McKENZIE
The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The drive to strengthen European defence is reshaping relations between France, Germany, Italy and Britain, says NICK WRIGHT
The UN blames gangs for Haiti’s turmoil, while ignoring decades of foreign intervention and support for an unelected government that lie at the heart of the country’s continuing crisis, says RUBEN BRETT
As someone lucky enough to have got to know Pete Seeger a little, in East Berlin of all places, and who admired him all my life, the words of Ralph Nader, Bruce Springsteen and many others, also the courageous words of Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara, moved me to many recollections, and also to some hard thinking.
Pete wrote that after the 1950s he was no longer a "Communist with a large C," but still one with a small c.
As for me, a "red diaper baby" in left-leaning New York, I was already in the "small c" category by the seventh grade.
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