Great Depression
On anniversary of Great Depression, 25 million collecting unemployment
October 29, 2020Nine decades after the first Great Depression started, we are now in the midst of another, with a president who has no plan to get us out of it.
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Coronavirus reveals same contradictions as Great Depression: Will we learn this time?
June 5, 2020Products go to waste, while many go hungry. Millions unemployed, while Wall Street soars. Have we learned the lessons of the Great Depression?
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Welcome to Trumpville
June 5, 2020A cartoon from Greg Kearney.
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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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The Communist Party in the ’30s: The Depression and the great upsurge
May 14, 2019When the Depression struck, Herbert Hoover and the business press said to wait for economic adjustment. But unemployed and hungry people couldn't wait.
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