Politics
Racist voter suppression tilting elections in GOP’s favor
April 24, 2018This modern day 'poll tax' is a racist effort to prevent African-American and Latino voters from exercising their democratic rights and casting their ballots.
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Chinese media interviews U.S. Communist Party leader
April 20, 2018CPUSA leaders John Bachtell talks with Chinese media about Marxism, the process of social change, and the need for greater international Communist cooperation.
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Politically-charged rap finally gets its due with Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer
April 19, 2018Hip hop has battled against public disapproval and respectability politics for decades, but Lamar's Pulitzer signals a change.
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Gay rights in the Communist press: Recollections of a seminal article
April 18, 2018People's World writer Eric Gordon remembers when "the winds of perestroika" finally blew in 1990 and he was invited to write the first article on gay rights to appear in the U.S. Communist press.
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New stages: As Trump danger escalates, so does the Resistance
April 17, 2018With a new 'war cabinet' in place, the danger from the Trump administration is increasing, but it is matched by an explosion of new mass democratic movements.
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