Appelbaum Memoir
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.
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Working 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.
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Where 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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Growing up as a communist kid in the 1930s
September 23, 2019I didn't always understand the nuances of the political arguments advanced at the big gatherings, but I always felt comfortable in the warmth of a movement that had as its professed goals brotherhood of peoples and...
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My parents were Communists: The story of our 1934 eviction
August 30, 2019My mother had not enjoyed a formal education, but she possessed a highly developed sense of working-class “street smarts”: She knew who the enemy was and how to deal with him.
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