history
“Enemy of the people”: Trump steps up attacks on freedom of the press
November 8, 2018Karl Marx once wrote, “The free press is the ubiquitous, vigilant eye of a people’s soul…the embodied culture that transforms material struggles into ideological struggles.”
Read more
Scab worker causes NYC’s Malbone subway disaster 100 years ago today
November 1, 2018One hundred years ago, on November 1, 1918, the worst subway accident in the history of New York City took place: the Malbone Street Wreck.
Read more
How Frankenstein and Dracula created a union
October 31, 2018And Karloff wasn’t the only one who saw the worth of having a union in the workplace. Dracula star Bela Lugosi was also pro-union, and the two both actively organized actors and actresses on the sets...
Read more
Jackie Robinson integrates baseball 73 years ago—Daily Worker archive
October 30, 2018Fall 1945: the “people’s war against fascism” was victorious. And creeping closer also was victory for Daily Worker's 10-year campaign to end Jim Crow baseball.
Read more
Kalb, Rather: Trump endangers democracy as well as free press
October 24, 2018Trump “is a pickup of the McCarthy period. If you were suspected of being in the left wing, you'd lose your job."
Read more