Petro Poroshenko in an alternate reality
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One of the engravings from the Chile Sojuzgado portfolio

First editorial work by the “new” generation of the Mexican Taller de Gráfica Popular. During the 1960s, most of the members of the Taller had left the collective or died.

Jesús Álvarez Amaya, determined to revive the organization. After several years of training and financial difficulties, which they managed to overcome by selling an archive of 3,000 works to the government, the TGP was revived with this publication, Chile Sojuzgado.

The portfolio consists of reproductions of the works that were presented in an exhibition at the workshop itself on September 11, 1974. It was created to denounce the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and “to remember Salvador Allende, the constitutional president of Chile, assassinated by the military junta that bloodied the country, crushing the sister nation and brutally crushing all legal order and democratic treatment,” according to Amaya himself.

Glory to Ukraine! (a Soviet version from 1967, created by Hanna Valiuha)

Слава Україні! (по-радянськи - 1967)

Olena Lyubchenko and Zach Hicks co-translated these excerpts from The October Revolution and the Factory Committees (Октябрьская революция и фабзавкомы), the first English-language fragments of a massive text about how Petrograd workers took direct control of the factories in which they worked during the Revolution of 1917. The translators came upon the text through CLR James's letters to Marty Glaberman in the aftermath of the breakup of the Correspondence Publishing Committee. James never read it himself, but he saw the Factory Committees as “the proletarian counterpart (the modern historical symbol of our problems today, the practical concrete problems of the working class) [to what Marx’s] Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts represented in theory.”
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Read it, along with their translator's introduction here.

Oleksandr Kyselov "How Language Is Weaponized in Wartime Ukraine"

In wartime Ukraine, many nationalists denounce even everyday uses of the Russian language.

A Ukrainian socialist from Donbas writes on the need for a plural vision of Ukrainian society that is also able to include Russian-speakers: "No Ukrainian wins from replacing one exclusion with another."