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William Z. Foster—Pioneer fighter for Black equality in organized labor
February 25, 2021At a time when trade unions ignored the issues of Black workers and kept them out of organized labor, William Z. Foster fought to change the whole movement.
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Harlem’s 1946 fight against South African starvation foreshadowed anti-apartheid struggle
February 24, 2021The fight to save Black South Africans from starvation in 1946 foreshadowed the major struggles against apartheid that would define the decades to come.
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From the People’s World archives: W.E.B. DuBois joins the Communist Party
February 23, 2021Editor’s Note: Dr. William E. Burghardt DuBois was born Feb. 23, 1868. Near the end of his life, in 1961, he applied for membership in the Communist Party USA. His letter, and the response from Gus...
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‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in
February 17, 2021This book of essays celebrating the CPUSA's 100 years is heartfelt, reverent at times, hyper-romantic at others, and decidedly not uncritical.
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‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski
February 16, 2021For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.
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