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Red Diaper Baby: Big Brother’s still watching you

September 23, 2019 By Ed Rampell

The world premiere of Leda Siskind’s thought-provoking, topical The Surveillance Trilogy is so perfectly timed.

Growing up as a communist kid in the 1930s

September 23, 2019 By Noyma Appelbaum

I 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...

Only united struggle by workers and their allies can overcome racism

September 20, 2019 By Rick Nagin

There is an off-shoot of racist ideology: the concept of ”white skin privilege,” now widely promoted in academic and other middle-class circles.

Basketball’s Maya Moore dedicated to criminal justice

September 17, 2019 By Doug Feinberg

Maya Moore startled basketball when she stepped away from the WNBA before the season. She has spent a lot of her time trying to help a family friend overturn a conviction.

Baltimore crowd celebrates 100 years of the Communist Party USA

September 17, 2019 By Tim Wheeler

A multi-racial crowd from the mid-Atlantic region celebrated the founding of the CPUSA a century ago, filling a church here with singing, poetry, and calls for the ouster of Trump.