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Eyewitness report: The birth of the Daily Worker
June 22, 2019An interview with Art Shields, a labor journalist who was on the staff of the Daily Worker newspaper (predecessor of People’s World) when it rolled off the presses for the first time on January 13, 1924.
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Charles E. Ruthenberg: The first leader of the Communist Party USA
June 18, 2019At the time of his death in 1927, he was lauded as “one of the most indicted and imprisoned workers” in the history of the American labor movement.
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Year of the strike: From Broadway to Boston
June 17, 2019The CPUSA was born amidst a wave of labor action, with strike waves sweeping the country.
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James Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights
June 7, 2019It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.
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Breaking ground for gay rights in the Communist press
June 4, 2019Other than left-sectarian grouplets that still believed homosexuality was bourgeois decadence, the only outlier in the '80s was the CPUSA.
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