Culture

Rekindling socialism with Eugene V. Debs

April 5, 2008 By Tim Pelzer

Title: The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle Publisher: Institute of Working Class History, 2008, 205 pages Author: Edited by William A. Pelz, Introduction by Howard Zinn Correction: An earlier version of this...

Mexican museum honors Day of the Dead

November 2, 2007 By Pepe Lozano

At the museum, one ofrenda on display was dedicated to the memory of 32 Chicago Public School students who died, mostly to gun violence, during the 2006-2007 school year.

Filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, lifelong radical

June 22, 2007 By Dennis Laumann

His films tackled the most contentious issues in Africa, frequently provoking the indignation of the ruling class of both his home country and its former colonizer.

Paul Robeson: The tallest tree in our forest

April 7, 2006 By Marilyn Bechtel

Paul Robeson’s legacy in the 21st century OAKLAND — Fifty years ago, when legendary civil rights and peace leader, athlete, and artist Paul Robeson was being hounded by McCarthy-era witch-hunting committees, deprived of his livelihood and...

Einstein in the hood. BOOK REVIEW: Einstein on Race and Racism.

February 24, 2006 By Special to People’s World

Princeton was a southern town in northern gown. Segregation of Blacks from whites was widely practiced and enforced. Einstein, a German-born Jew and naturalized American citizen, was acutely aware of what racism is and does, and...