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Topic History of: Peerless Pilger - Blasts Past Present Future Myths Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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AllVictims
Fair Judge JK, as in 'VPTM'.
Judge the case - Right wing MYTHS v Left wing FACTS.
" 50 years ago, E.P. Thompson's 'The Making of the English Working Class' rescued the study of history from the powerful. Kings and queens, landowners, industrialists, politicians and imperialists had owned much of the public memory.
In 1980, Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' also demonstrated that the freedoms and rights we enjoy precariously - free expression, free association, the jury system, the rights of minorities - were the achievements of ordinary people, not the gift of elites. "