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A Pennsylvania school board president is facing calls to resign after confiscating the microphone from a woman who was speaking out against critical race theory at a West Chester School District board meeting on July 26.

Iranian immigrant and mother of three Anita Edgarian told "Fox & Friends" that, at first, she had "no intentions to talk."

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But, after a long, daunting meeting and many remarks giving praise to the retiring superintendent, Jim Scanlon, she got up and expressed to the school board her concerns about critical race theory. During her allotted time to speak, she told them she grew up during the Iranian Revolution and witnessed her "motherland" being "ravaged by communism."

She accused Scanlon of creating divisions and "leaving a mess." Furthermore, she described her home as "the International House of Pancakes," because her childrens friends are diverse.

When she proceeded to ask whether or not teachers were being taught critical race theory, the West Chester school board president Chris McCune said, "Anita, youre at time." She pushed back, "No, no," prompting him to angrily say, "Yes you are." McCune approached Edgarian at the podium, took the microphone, faced Anita, and told her to leave.

McCune told Edgarian, "This is shameful," as she was being removed from the building by police officers.

"Weve had a respectful meeting up until you. You bombarded up there, and now you want to monopolize the meeting. Not happening. Youre gone."

Edgarian told host Ainsley Earhardt, "By the time I asked that question, he was already coming toward me. And so that's a clarification because my parents have raised me better."

A GOP committee in West Chester is calling for McCune to resign or attend anger management counseling for his behavior.

"In a letter released Sunday, the Republican Committee of Chester County in Pennsylvania called West Chester school board president Chris McCunes conduct reprehensible, and accused him of trying to intimidate the immigrant mom. The encounter between McCune and a mom named Anita occurred at the end of last weeks two-hour board meeting, during which many parents and teachers expressed their opinions about the districts diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts,' the National Review reported.

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CRT curriculum has sparked a national conversation about the role of race and racism in school districts across the country.Often compared by critics to actual racism, CRT is a school of thought that generally focuses on how power structures and institutions impact racial minorities.

"I just don't think he likes the fact that I was saying, Why the division?"

Edgarian went on to say, "I have friends on both sides of this aisle. Friends and, you know, close friends sometimes. And you know, so I don't want my kids to grow up feeling that they cannot talk to this person or that person. And I just wanted to know and, you know, the best thing is to come out and frankly ask the question."

Fox News reached out to the West Chester area school district for a statement but did not hear back.

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The intriguing article below delves into the detail of the South African Communist Party and how its ideologies have shaped the South Africa we know today. Although there are many negative connotations associated to communism, the South African Communist party has done a lot of good in its more than a hundred year history. The party cut across racial and social divide from its inception and are in many ways a political force in which the ANC can look up to and admire. Justin Rowe-Roberts

By Tom Lodge*

Until recently, just living to a 100 was an achievement worth celebrating for itself. In England new centenarians receive a special card from their queen. Perhaps the same convention is maintained in South Africa and its Communist Partys 300 000 or so members can expect a birthday message from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on their centenary. Or maybe not.

In any case, they have more to celebrate than their partys extreme old age, though under often tough conditions survival itself is an achievement. Next to the 109-year old governing African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party is the second oldest political organisation in Africa. But, South African communists did more than outlive their rivals and opponents. They can make reasonable claims to have shaped South African history, as Ive outlined in my book, Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party 1921-2021.

In which ways did they do this?

And is it just history, though, that the party will be celebrating? What about today?

First, they initiated political solidarities that cut across South Africas racial and social cleavages. They began doing this from the partys formation in 1921 when it began recruiting black South Africans. Ten years later there were black people leading the party and joining it in thousands. This was in an era when most forms of social life were racially segregated, by custom if not by law. From 1948 apartheid would restrict any interracial contact still further. But, such confinements were fairly extensive well before then.

The partys commitment to cross-racial politics wavered now and then but, even so, it supplied real world evidence that black and white South Africans could share political goals and work towards them together. In the early 1930s, the first white communists were convicted and served prison sentences for sedition, that is for attempting to mobilise black followers.

Today in South Africa communists can take a considerable portion of the credit for the extent to which the countrys politics is nonracial.

Secondly, modern South Africa has one of the strongest labour movements in the developing world, a movement that still shapes government policy. Its historical gestation is a complicated story. Communists were not the only labour pioneers.

But in the 1930s and 1940s people like recently disembarked Lithuanian immigrant, Ray Alexander, assembled industrial unions that would constitute enduring foundations for what was to follow. Some of todays most powerful trade unions can trace their genealogy back to her efforts.

Communists in the 1940s such as the Port Elizabeth dry cleaning worker Raymond Mhlaba worked out a strategy of alliances beginning with community protests to support strike movements. This coalition between labour leaders and community activists would persist through the next five decades, helping to enable national liberation in 1994.

In fact, at a local level trade unionists often were community leaders in the 1940s, as well as belonging to the Communist party. In the places in which they were busiest, in New Brighton outside Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, for example, or in the townships exclusively black residential areas dispersed along the East Rand, or in Cape Towns Langa, these leaders and their activist communist following in the 1950s after the partys prohibition continued to organise and mobilise.

It was no coincidence that the ANC had the most entrenched and systematic presence in the 1950s in the localities in which communists were best organised in the 1940s. In short, the Decade of Defiance, the ten years or so of mass action against apartheid in the 1950s, was incubated in party networks.

There are many other ways in which the party stamped its historic imprint. If the ANCs armed struggle against apartheid minority rule was decisive, and it was certainly important in inspiring other kinds of political action during the 1980s, then communists supplied most of the key members of its general staff and as well many field unit commanders.

Then from the 1920s onwards through its night-schools and other training facilities, the party educated successive echelons of South Africas political leadership. That the ANC today in its internal discourses still uses the jargon and phraseology employed by the partys commissars in the Angolan training camps 40 years ago is testimony to their enduring effectiveness as educators. Indeed, the concept of national democracy that the ANC uses to describe the kind of social order it is trying to build, itself derives from a Communist notion of a transitional stage between capitalism and socialism developed in Eastern Europe after the Second World War.

A final example of the partys pioneering role in shifting political norms: earlier than any other South African political movement, the Communist Party brought women into leadership. The pioneers whom the Party should be recalling on its birthday include key women: Rebecca Bunting , Josie Mpama, Molly Wolton, Dora Tamana, Betty du Toit and Ruth First.

The Communist Party is in a tripartite governing alliance with the ANC and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the labour federation.

Communists have held important positions in ANC governments for nearly 30 years. For example, in Cyril Ramaphosas first cabinet communists were appointed to a number of ministerial portfolios, including Trade and Industry and Higher Education. Former communists have held other key positions, including the presidency itself as well as the Finance Ministry.

Party leaders can count their membership in hundreds of thousands. But are they still shaping history?

South African communists argue that their participation in government makes a real difference, reinforcing its commitment to public employment programmes, to re-industrialisation, to better foreign trade policies, and increased financial aid for students.

But they also concede that much of their effort is undone by political corruption and bureaucratic inefficiency, and that they have failed to shift the governments neo-liberal macroeconomic policies significantly. They would prefer more market regulation and more support and protection for local industry. They dislike the extent to which public services are contracted out to private firms.

They do suggest that they play a role in limiting public venality. This may be true though initially they helped to defend President Jacob Zuma against his critics as well as contributing to his victory to become ANC president at its 2007 conference, and subsequently the head of state.

With such a large signed-up following youd think Communists would constitute a powerful grouping within the ANC and in the wider political domain. But does their membership really matter?

The partys following doesnt constitute a disciplined electoral bloc, either within the ANCs own internal voting procedures nor in national or municipal polls. Nor is it a membership that draws solidarity from its participation in manufacturing in the classic Marxian sense. The largest social group from whom the party recruits is young unemployed people, a group that keeps growing.

The partys present strategic purpose is about building capacity for socialism. This includes promoting local industry and strengthening the provision of public services.

In following this course, it is fair to say that its present challenges are as formidable as anything it has confronted in the past. Global markets make it very difficult to rebuild declining industries anywhere, but particularly in a country in which workers have rights and as a consequence are comparatively well paid.

South Africas earlier industrialisation happened under a forced labour regime. Then, arguably, South Africas developmental trajectory its history was on the partys side, building an increasingly skilled industrial workforce. But industrial employment has stagnated or declined. Under such conditions constructing a unified political base is so much more difficult. Under modern conditions hopes and faith have to replace old certainties.

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In the Cold War climate of the 1950s and 1960s, the threat of communism galvanized public attention. In 1953 Martin Luther King called communismone of the most important issues of our day (Papers 6:146). As King rose to prominence he frequently had to defend himself against allegations of being a Communist, though his view thatCommunism and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible did not change (King, Strength, 93). Although sympathetic to communisms core concern with social justice, King complained that with itscold atheism wrapped in the garments of materialism, communism provides no place for God or Christ (Strength, 94).

King first studied communism on his own while a student at Crozer Theological Seminary in 1949. In his 1958 memoir, he reported that although he rejected communisms central tenets, he was sympathetic to Marxs critique of capitalism, finding thegulf between superfluous wealth and abject povertythat existed in the United States morally wrong (Stride, 94). Writing his future wife, Coretta Scott, during the first summer of their relationship, he told her that he wasmore socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits(Papers 6:123; 125).

King began preaching onCommunisms Challenge to Christianityin 1952, repeating sermons on the same theme throughout his career and including one as a chapter in his 1963 volume of sermons, Strength to Love. Communisms presence demandedsober discussion,he preached, becauseCommunism is the only serious rival to Christianity(Strength, 93). King critiqued communisms ethical relativism, which allowed evil and destructive means to justify an idealistic end. Communism, wrote King,robs man of that quality which makes him man,that is, being achild of God(Strength, 95).

Despite Kings consistent rejection of communism, in 1962 his associations with a few alleged Communists prompted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to launch an investigation into his alleged links with the Communist Party. In 1976 the U.S. Senate committee reviewing the FBIs investigation of King noted:We have seen no evidence establishing that either of those Advisers attempted to exploit the civil rights movement to carry out the plans of the Communist Party(Senate Select Committee, Book III, 85). From wiretaps initiated in 1963, the FBI fed controversial information to the White House and offered it tofriendlyreporters in an effort to discredit King. In 1964 King told an audience in Jackson, Mississippi, he wassick and tired of people saying this movement has been infiltrated by Communists There are as many Communists in this freedom movement as there are Eskimos in Florida(Herbers,Rights Workers).

In 1963 King bowed to the wishes of the Kennedy administration and fired SCLC employee Jack ODell after the FBI alleged that he was a Communist. King also agreed to cease direct communication with his friend and closest white advisor, Stanley Levison, although he eventually resumed contact with him in March 1965. FBI surveillance and bugs tracked Kings political associations and produced evidence of Kings extramarital sexual activitiesinformation that was later leaked to some reporters.

In 1965 King faced questions from journalists on Meet the Press about his association with Tennessees Highlander Folk School, which had been branded aCommunist training schoolon billboards that appeared throughout Alabama during the Selma to Montgomery March and showed King attending a Highlander workshop. King defended the school, saying that it was not Communist and noted thatgreat Americans such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Reinhold Niebuhr, Harry Golden, and many othershad supported the school (King, 28 March 1965).

Kings position on the war against Communists in northern Vietnam, like his overall position on communism, was rooted in his Christian belief in brotherhood. Indeed, in the summer of 1965 the press reported Kings off-the-cuff remarks to a Southern Christian Leadership Conference rally in Virginia:Were not going to defeat Communism with bombs and guns and gases We must work this out in the framework of our democracy(Dr. King Declares). In his 1967 book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? King decried Americas morbid fear of Communism,arguing that it prevented people from embracing arevolutionary spirit and declaring eternal opposition to poverty, racism, and militarism(King, Where, 190).

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The marriage between Socialism and Mamatha Banerjee was called by many a match made in heaven as the Tamil couple's wedding announcement went viral last week. On Sunday, the couple finally tied the knot in Tamil Nadu's Salem district, news agency ANI reported, with the wedding ceremony being attended by Socialism's siblings Communism and Leninism. Communist Party of India (CPI) president R Mutharasan was also present at the wedding event in Panaimarathupatti, added the news agency ANI. What's more, Leninism's son, named Marxism, was also in attendance at the wedding, reported ANI.

Socialism, Communism, and Leninism are all the progeny of A. Mohan, a CPI district secretary. The kids were born during the fall of the Soviet Union, but were so named by their father to signify that there is "no end to communism as long as the human race lives on." Socialism is the youngest, while Communism the eldest. Pictures of the wedding invitation, embossed with hammer-and-sickle emblems, between Socialism and a woman named Mamatha Banerjee went viral last week. The bride is named after the West Bengal chief minister, who incidentally led to the Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s downfall in the state. The match for irony couldn't have been better.

Mohan said that there was nothing unusual about his sons' names -- some of his "comrades" gave their children names such as Moscow, Russia, Vietnam and Czechoslovakia. But he admitted that his boys, especially Communism, were sometimes teased at school. One hospital refused to admit Communism when he was three years old.

The telephone numbers of the Tamil couple were printed on the wedding invite, and this prompted many netizens to shower blessings on the wedding duo, ANI reported, adding a bunch of reactions from the Twitter hivemind who revelled at this fated match. "Well... from communism to socialism, that's a welcome change lol:)," a Twitterati was quoted as saying.

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From elementary school essay competitions to patriotic films to an unending parade of speeches, banners, and news headlines, China is in the midst of celebrating the CCP's 100-year anniversary

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is all setfor a patriotic extravaganza to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding on 1 July. Since the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, the CCP has been in sole control of that countrys government.

With its centenarian celebrations looming, party leaders are pulling out all the stops to celebrate the party's founding 100 years ago.From elementary school essay competitions to patriotic films to an unending parade of speeches, banners, and news headlines, China is in the midst of celebrating the CCP's 100-year anniversary.

The Communist Party of China has more than 91 million members, according to the official Xinhua news agency many of them grassroots cadres and ordinary civil servants.

The CCP was founded as both a political party and a revolutionary movement in 1921 by revolutionaries such as Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu. Those two men and others had come out of the May Fourth Movement (1919) and had turned to Marxism after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the turmoil of 1920s China, CCP members such as Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and Li Lisan began organizing labour unions in the cities.

It is a monolithic, monopolistic party that dominates the political life of China. It is the major policy-making body in China and oversees the central, provincial, and local organs of government to carry out those policies.

Let's take a lookat 10defining momentsfor the party in the last century.

1.May Fourth Movement

The party's journey started in 1921 when CCP was formed. China at that time was driven by feuding warlords, deeply mired in poverty, and powerless on the international stage. The Republic of China was established in 1912, but its government was weak and largely unable to solve China's problems, as noted byAxios.

However, in reality, there was awar between regional warlords and militias,who claimed independence from the national government and sought to serve their own needs.

On 4 May, 1919, thousands of students rallied in Beijing for a demonstration against the national government.

In what is now called the May Fourth Movement,on 4 May, 19191,more than 3,000 students from 13 colleges in Beijing held a mass demonstration against the decision of the Versailles Peace Conference, which drew up the treaty officially ending World War I, to transfer the former German concessions in Shandong province to Japan.

The Chinese governments acquiescence to the decision so enraged the students that they burned the house of the minister of communications and assaulted Chinas minister to Japan, both pro-Japanese officials. Over the following weeks, demonstrations occurred throughout the country; several students died or were wounded in these incidents.

2. Great Leap Forward

A decade after the Communist party took power in 1949, one of the largest manmade disasters in history struck an already impoverished land. In an unremarkable city in central Henan province, more than a million people one in eight were wiped out by starvation and brutality over three short years, as per The Guardian.

The ironically titled "Great Leap Forward",a five-year economic plan, was supposed to be the culmination of Mao Zedongs program for transforming China into a Communist paradise.

The campaign was undertaken by the Chinese communists between 1958 and early 1960 to organize its vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet Chinas industrial and agricultural problems.

As per the BBC, the drive produced an economic breakdown and was abandoned after two years. Disruption to agriculture is blamed for the deaths by starvation of millions of people following poor harvests.

3. Tibet's incorporation

Tibets incorporation into the Peoples Republic of China began in 1950 and has remained a highly charged and controversial issue, both within Tibet and worldwide. Many Tibetans (especially those outside China) consider Chinas action to be an invasion of a sovereign country, and the continued Chinese presence in Tibet is deemed an occupation by a foreign power.

In 1950, Chinese troops entered Tibet, and a year later, the Chinese government formally gained control over the region and its devoutly Buddhist Tibetans. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959, to India, following a failed uprising against Chinese rule.

The Dalai Lama and the exiled government, also known as the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has proposed what they call a "middle way" approach that would allow the exiled Tibetans to return to China on the condition of "genuine autonomy" for Tibet, though not full independence.

In 2008, anti-China protests escalated into the worst violence Tibet had seen, just five months before Beijing was to host the Olympic Games. Pro-Tibet activists in several countries focussed world attention on the region by disrupting the progress of the Olympic torch relay.

However, since 2010, the CCPhas rebuffed attempts by the CTA to reopen dialogue and maintains that the Dalai Lama is a separatist.

4. Cultural Revolution

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a decade-long period of political and social chaos caused by Mao Zedongs bid to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist party.

Fearing that China would develop along the lines of the Soviet model and concerned about his own place in history, Mao threw Chinas cities into turmoil in a monumental effort to reverse the historic processes underway.

In response to Maos admonishments, the Red Guard Movement was formed. The Red Guards was a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized. While they sought to reinforce the Maoist standards of Communism, they were largely undisciplined and caused violence among those they saw as capitalists.

They formed under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1966 in order to help party chairman Mao Zedong combat revisionist authoritiesi.e., those party leaders Mao considered as being insufficiently revolutionary

The Revolution marked Mao's return to the central position of power in China after a period of less radical leadership to recover from the failures of the Great Leap Forward, which contributed to the Great Chinese Famine only five years prior.

The Cultural Revolution lasted for at least 10 years up until Maos death in 1976.

5.Rise of Deng Xiaoping

By orchestrating Chinas transition to a market economy, Deng Xiaoping left a lasting legacy on China and the world. After becoming the leader of the Communist Party of China in 1978, following Mao Zedongs death two years earlier, Deng launched a program of reform that ultimately saw China become the worlds largest economy in terms of its purchasing power in 2014, according to The Conversation.

Xiaoping was one of the most powerful figures in the Peoples Republic of China from the late 1970s until his death in 1997. He abandoned many orthodox communist doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of the free-enterprise system and other reforms into the Chinese economy.

Under him, China undertook far-reaching economic reforms. The government imposed a one-child policy in an effort to curb population growth.With the "open-door policy", the party also opens the country to foreign investment and encourages development of a market economy and private sector.

6. Tiananmen Square

While Xiaoping hoped to boost the economy and raise living standards by opening up the economy, the move brought with it corruption, while at the same time raising hopes for greater political openness.

In spring 1989, the protests grew, with demands for greater political freedom. In May 1989, nearly a million Chinese, mostly young students, gathered in Tiananmen Square,initially to demand the posthumous rehabilitation of former CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang, who was forced to resign in 1987.

But soon the protestspiraledto demanding greater democracy and call for the resignations of Chinese Communist Party leaders, who were deemed too repressive. For nearly three weeks, the protesters kept up daily vigils.

On June 3 to 4, 1989, however, Chinese troops and security police stormed through Tiananmen Square, firing indiscriminately into the crowds of protesters.

7.SARS virus outbreak

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), was firstdetected in humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002, with the region still considered a potential zone of its re-emergence. It was considered the first major novel infectious disease to affect the international community in the 21st century,prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the ailment a worldwide health threat.

8.Bo Xilai scandal

In March 2012,Chongqing Communist Party chief and potential leadership hopeful Bo Xilai is dismissed on the eve of the party's 10-yearly leadership change, in the country's biggest political scandal for years. Bo was considered a likely candidate for promotion to the elite CCP Politburo Standing Committee in 18th Party Congress in 2012.

In the fallout, Bo was removed as the CCP Committee secretary of Chongqing and lost his seat on the Politburo. He was later stripped of all his positions and lost his seat at the National People's Congress and eventually expelled from the party. In 2013, Bo was found guilty of corruption, stripped of all his assets, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is incarcerated at Qincheng Prison.

9. Hong Kong protests

In June, 2019,Chinaunveiled details of its new national security law for Hong Kong, paving the way for the most profound change to the city's way of life since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Hong Kong was always meant to have a security law, but could never pass one because italways hotly debated.

The law came into effect at 23:00 local time on 30 June, 2019, an hour before the 23rd anniversary of the city's handover to China from British rule. It gives Beijing the power to shape life in Hong Kong it has never had before.

China's move to impose the law directly on Hong Kong, bypassing the city's legislature, came after a year of sometimes violent anti-government and anti-Beijing protests that mainland and local authorities blame "foreign forces" for fomenting.

At the time of the handover, China promised to allow Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy for 50 years under what is known as the "one country two systems" formula of governance.

Soon after, Hong Kongstarted seeingmonths of anti-government and pro-democracy protests, involving violent clashes with police, against the proposed law, allowing extradition to mainland China.

The last year, 2020,will be forever linked with China. In December 2019, the first cases of a mysterious new pneumonia were detected, prompting Chinese officials to play down the danger and stifle news of the outbreak.

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