history – Page 136 – People's World

1619 anniversary: Black freedom struggle made U.S. more democratic for all

August 21, 2019 By Jesse Jackson

Blacks suffered under slavery for 250 years, and brutal racial apartheid for a century more. We have been legally free for just 50.

Review: Russian revolution revered as trailblazing event in the developing world

August 20, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky

"Like a brilliant sun, the [1917] October [Bolshevik] Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions of oppressed and exploited people around the world."

Ben Riskin, the Communist behind “portal-to-portal” pay

August 20, 2019 By Tim Wheeler

He fought to win workers pay for the time it takes them to get to and from their job, but corporate-controlled Congressmen took it away.

Against fascism and war: The Communist Party USA’s third decade

August 19, 2019 By Norman Markowitz

Was there truth to the allegation that Communists—both in the Soviet Union and around the world—had helped Hitler start World War II?

IWO: Book traces workers’ efforts to insure themselves against capitalism’s failures

August 19, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky

The International Workers Order was an insurance company like none ever seen - a Communist-led mutual aid society to shield its members from capitalist evils.