Cold War
‘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.
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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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