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How could we ever bring ourselves to join the Communist Party?
July 22, 2019Victor Grossman, a Cold War exile from McCarthyism, responds to Kevin Baker's New York Times book review of "A Good American Family."
Read more‘Soul of a Nation’: Art of the Black Power decades
July 19, 2019Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 is a comprehensive, expansive, and some might consider exhaustive overview of the Black Power movement.
Read moreBertolt Brecht’s Marxist masterpiece ‘Caucasian Chalk Circle’ in stunning production
July 17, 2019German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) changed 20th-century drama with his notion of “epic theater."
Read more‘The Ruling Clawss’: Redfield provides proletarian humor to the ‘Daily Worker’
July 17, 2019"What he is doing is reflecting the honest disdain of the workers for the pathetic upper classes."
Read moreOhio’s defiant Communist, Anna Hass Morgan
July 15, 2019“To have joined the party was the greatest thing that happened in my life because it is like opening your eyes when before you were blind, and you can never, never go back."
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