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Breaking ground for gay rights in the Communist press
June 4, 2019Other than left-sectarian grouplets that still believed homosexuality was bourgeois decadence, the only outlier in the '80s was the CPUSA.
Read moreSit down! The CPUSA, the CIO, and the great industrial union drive
June 3, 2019In the second half of the 1930s, Communists took on the task of organizing America's industrial workforce and fighting fascism in Spain.
Read moreTiananmen Square 1989: People’s World on the scene
June 3, 2019People's World correspondent Carl Bloice wrote in 1989: "For the authorities, it was never a case of handling a revolt, for there was none."
Read more‘Fire on the Mountain’: John Brown’s story lies a-mouldering on the page
May 31, 2019John Brown is one of American history’s most fascinating characters.
Read moreSalt of the Earth: The revolutionary life of Anita Torrez
May 30, 2019“When did you join the Communist Party USA?” I asked. “I can’t quite remember…we just kept going to meeting after meeting, and before I knew it, we had joined,” she replied, laughing.
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