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A campus Communist headed toward a career with the ‘Pennsylvania Worker’
November 22, 2019Going to work for the Pennsylvania Worker meant that I would cut off possibilities of employment in mainstream journalism. I understood the risk, but I wanted to become a revolutionary journalist.
Read moreLa Vieja Guardia / To the Old Guard
November 14, 2019"You...who walked in the glorious red October sun, and taught us that the word collective and its moral import apply to the individual."
Read moreWorking in the bourgeois press: Prelude to a career in left journalism
November 1, 2019Working for the Philadelphia Inquirer was precisely the right job for me at that time. I picked up practical skills and bits of knowledge that would prove useful in newspaper work later.
Read more‘Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice’: A welcome new book
October 28, 2019The story of Chicano Communists is a quintessential American one and absolutely relevant to our understanding of who we are as a nation.
Read moreWhere were you on May Day? A communist schoolboy’s memoir
October 23, 2019When I was eight, the principal, Dr. Pizor, called me to his office and asked why I had not attended school on May 1. He didn't understand that the May Day march probably had more educational...
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