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December 2024

Happy New Year because 2025 will be a time to man the barricades.
It's New Year's Eve, and we are staring into an abyss of fascism and bloodshed that awaits us in 2025.
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It was Sh*T was my Yelp Review for 2024.
Today, it rained, like the beginning of April rather than the end of December.
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Christmas Week or the funk of being stuck in an eternally rainy Sunday afternoon.
There's something North Korean about how the Christian Western world obligates its citizens to be in a state of joy from December until January 1st.
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"Unbridled capitalism in the 1930s was a one way ticket to fascism."
The whole purpose of my Harry’s Last Stand Substack is to use my life, my father’s, my family and my ancestors as a working-class history of Things…
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Table for one for Christmas, but there will be good cheer.
It's a table for one again this Christmas. Yet even in solitude, I follow the customs of Christmas taught to me in sunnier times. There will be food…
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We are living in a Digital Gilded Age of Fascism
Winter Solstice came and went this past weekend. The Great Democracies of the West are down for the count, knocked to the canvas by the greed of their…
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1945-Silent Night.
In December 1945, my dad, Harry Leslie Smith, was stationed in Hamburg as part of the RAF's occupation force.
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Christmas 2024 has the same sharp edges Xmas 1930 had.
Despair rather than hope is in the hearts of many during the Christmas and Holiday season, in 2024.
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8:25
"Capitalism in the 1930s sentenced me to a lifetime of drudgery."
Before my father died in 2018, he wanted to demonstrate by using the history of his life and working-class contemporaries born in the early 20th century…
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"We deserved the right to have beauty in our lives rather than brutality."
The Green & Pleasant Land tells a true story about the lives of working-class people who lived during a time of political and economic catastrophe…
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We live in a digital version of the 1930s & so corrupt govts appease fascism.
Lately, when I take an evening walk, I brush up against the Ghosts of Christmas Future.
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