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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.

Winnipeg General Strike pops off the page in new comic history

September 16, 2019 By Kimball Cariou

This is a timely contribution to public understanding of the event which did so much to shape the working-class struggles of the 20th century, told in a way that reflects and amplifies the left politics which...