Cold War
A communist in space
April 12, 202463 years ago, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. Read how our Moscow correspondent reported on the event as it happened.
Read more‘Atlantic Pact peril’: NATO war alliance turns 75
April 4, 2024Blocking the war moves of NATO and working for the alliance’s abolition are chief tasks for the peace movement in this country today—just like they were in 1949.
Read moreMcCarthyism takes over the U.S. labor movement
February 15, 2024From the Daily Worker archives 1950: CIO caves to anti-communists, expels left-led unions.
Read more‘Savagery by proxy’: U.S. imperialism’s Korean executioners
February 9, 2024The Korean War holds a lesson for today: When does “savagery by proxy,” in Gaza, for instance, become savagery by us?
Read moreAlbert Maltz’s long-suppressed civil rights novel is rediscovered—and still relevant
January 23, 2024A Long Day in a Short Life, just released in a beautiful new paperback edition by Alma Books, is available for the first time since 1957. You’ve probably never heard of it.
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