Cold War
McCarthyism takes over the U.S. labor movement
February 15, 2024From the Daily Worker archives 1950: CIO caves to anti-communists, expels left-led unions.
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‘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?
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Albert 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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‘I Was a Red Priest’: Christianity on socialism’s side during the Cold War
October 2, 2023I Was a Red Priest: Memories and Testimonials offers through its protagonist a Christian social analysis that is now minimized but was widely held in the post-World War II era.
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The Oppenheimer paradox: Scientists vs. the military-industrial complex
August 4, 2023The Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb represented multiple ruptures in society, which still cast a cloud over the world today.
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