history – Page 101 – People's World

Last leader of East Germany, Egon Krenz, on NATO and war in Ukraine

September 7, 2022 By Ben Chacko

Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to East Germany's last leader about a world dividing again into armed camps.

Bea Lumpkin, still going strong at 104, leads Chicago Labor Day parade

September 6, 2022 By Special to People’s World

An activist since the 1930s, Bea Lumpkin isn't quitting any time soon.

Herstory: Unmanageable revolutionaries, women and the Irish national struggle

August 29, 2022 By Jenny Farrell

Margaret Ward has done much to retrieve Herstory from the claws of History, a truly important achievement.

70 years since I left the U.S. Army for East Germany

August 29, 2022 By Victor Grossman

Why on that fateful day I took off my army jacket, stepped into and swam across the Danube River.

Ukraine’s ally Poland demands it stop glorifying Nazi collaborators

August 18, 2022 By Morning Star

Though it backs Ukraine in the war against Russia, Poland’s right-wing government wants Kiev to recognize the genocide committed by Stepan Bandera in WWII.