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The working class becomes subject in the art of Gustave Courbet
June 5, 2019Gustave Courbet, born 200 years ago, was one of the first artists to show laborers at work so forcefully and honestly.
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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.
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Sit 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.
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Tiananmen 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."
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‘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.
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