5LL #239 - Libraries, COVID, Anti-Communism, Real Estate, Chile

Conservatives Are Trying to Ban Books in Your Town. Librarians Are Fighting Back.
Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic
How a right-wing mania is destroying the social fabric of communities across America.
Biden Hands the Covid Response to the Private Market, Endangering Us All
Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton, In These Times
1,200 days in, the public health emergency comes to an end. Can the Left fight back?
Red Scared
Billie Anania, The Baffler
Part fascist propaganda, part Epcot ride, the Victims of Communism “museum” is actually just three claustrophobic rooms of dystopian imagery and haunted house sounds, all designed to shock and appall.
Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex
Kate Wagner, The Nation
Having a personal aesthetic at home has become financially detrimental.
Chile’s Attempt at Democratic Socialism Combined State Action and Bottom-Up Initiative
Oren Schweitzer, Jacobin
Chile’s socialist experiment was made possible by a confrontational working-class political party and a militant labor movement. The experience shows the promise, and the dangers, of a movement based in both government initiatives and grassroots militancy.
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