Norman Markowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Norman Markowitz
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In New Jersey, an essential strike of, by, and for essential workers
September 29, 2023New Brunswick nurses’ strike hits the eight-week mark.
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Striking Rutgers history professor: The administration thinks academic workers don’t matter
April 12, 2023Direct reporting from the picket line by Rutgers history professor Norman Markowitz.
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A few of the Communist women who shaped U.S. history
March 1, 2023Major histories of women in and of the CPUSA have yet to be written, just as true women’s equality has yet to be won in the United States.
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Manuel Tiago’s ‘A Line in the Sand’: How to beat back a fascist coup
December 12, 2022In many of his previous works , “Tiago” would use his own experiences to look at Communist militants emerging from a life of underground struggle in prisons, factories, shops and streets in the last days of...
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Rittenhouse acquittal is latest chapter in long and sinister history of racism
December 13, 2021The acquittal, while it is seen throughout the world as a disgrace to both human rights and the rule of law, is unsurprising.
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Against fascism and war: The Communist Party USA’s third decade
August 19, 2019Was there truth to the allegation that Communists—both in the Soviet Union and around the world—had helped Hitler start World War II?
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Harry Hay: Communist pioneer in the fight for gay liberation
June 28, 2019From a Communist Party activist to leader of the gay liberation struggle - the life of Harry Hay.
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Sit down! The CPUSA, the CIO, and the great industrial union drive
June 3, 2019In the second half of the 1930s, Communists took on the task of organizing America's industrial workforce and fighting fascism in Spain.
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