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Manuel Tiago’s ‘Border Crossings’: People’s World interviews the translator

December 21, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

The latest volume in International Publishers' Manuel Tiago series, Border Crossings, has just been released. PW talks with Eric Gordon, the English translator.

West Side Stories, including the latest Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner film

December 20, 2021 By Michael Kaplan

Recorded just days after West Side Story opened on Broadway in September 1957, Columbia Records producer Goddard Lieberson’s brilliant original Broadway cast recording was my first acquaintance with Leonard Bernstein’s musical score for the updated version...

Stefan Heym: A central witness to both fascism and socialism in Germany

December 17, 2021 By John Ellison

Fleeing the Nazis to become a best-selling author in the U.S., then forced by McCarthyism to settle in the GDR in the '50s, he would go on to open the reunified German parliament in 1994.

A small but mighty IATSE organizing drive pops up in Beverly Hills

December 16, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

Workers at The Wallis won a union representation vote, but management has yet to recognize it or even agree on who is eligible to be the unit—supervisors, part-timers?

Frank Chapman, veteran activist, tackles Black Liberation and national question in book

December 15, 2021 By Timothy V. Johnson

Chapman’s latest book, Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism, traces the history of and connections between the struggle for socialism and the African American freedom movement.