Culture
‘Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s’: On- and offstage lives
March 9, 2020Award-winning playwright Madhuri Shekar is the latest in this venerable lineage, injecting a female, (South Asian) Indian, and 21st-century sensibility with her idiosyncratic take on the iconic Grecian legend.
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New collection of biographies recounts post-1956 U.S. Communist history
March 9, 2020Many historians place the CPUSA as in decline, but Pecinovsky corrects the record, showing its on social and economic justice, racial justice, the fight against sexism, and the push for global peace.
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‘Something is Going On’: A white worker wakes up to racist police violence
March 6, 2020This poem was part of the program at the New York CPUSA African-American History Celebration.
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Remembering Father Rutilio Grande of El Salvador
March 5, 2020I remember that day: During the night, the army conducted a massacre in the center of our capital, San Salvador. I witnessed the crew of workers cleaning up the spilled blood in the morning.
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Nicaragua mourns death of revolutionary priest Ernesto Cardinal
March 3, 2020Nicaragua is in mourning for revolutionary priest, poet and former Sandinista government minister Ernesto Cardenal, who died on Sunday aged 95.
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