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Eric Bentley, critic, playwright, Brecht translator, Hanns Eisler fan, dies at 103

August 17, 2020 By Special to People’s World

Readers and theatergoers who appreciate the work of Bertolt Brecht, and reading about it in English, have primarily Eric Bentley to thank. His contributions are truly beyond measure.

Writing at a time of plague: Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarca, Chaucer

August 14, 2020 By Jenny Farrell

The Black Plague was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, resulting in the deaths of between 75-125 million people.

No Heroes

August 13, 2020 By Peter Marcus

"There were no heroes in Hiroshima, only shadows."

‘Let Them Tremble’: So much of this history reads like right now

August 12, 2020 By Tim Wheeler

Through the lives of six Communists, Tony Pecinovsky shows the CPUSA playing a leading, if often behind the scenes role in every main arena of mass struggle of the 20th century's second half.

Radical historian challenges traditional Marxist view of ‘so-called’ American Revolution

August 11, 2020 By Jamal Rich

Marxists ranging from Lenin to Ho Chi Minh to CPUSA historian Herbert Aptheker have viewed the American Revolution as a bourgeois-democratic revolution that advanced the cause of liberty, as incomplete and flawed as it was. Gerald Horne says no.