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Review: Russian revolution revered as trailblazing event in the developing world
August 20, 2019"Like a brilliant sun, the [1917] October [Bolshevik] Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions of oppressed and exploited people around the world."
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Ben Riskin, the Communist behind “portal-to-portal” pay
August 20, 2019He 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.
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Against fascism and war: The Communist Party USA’s third decade
August 19, 2019Was there truth to the allegation that Communists—both in the Soviet Union and around the world—had helped Hitler start World War II?
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IWO: Book traces workers’ efforts to insure themselves against capitalism’s failures
August 19, 2019The International Workers Order was an insurance company like none ever seen - a Communist-led mutual aid society to shield its members from capitalist evils.
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Poetry selections for the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre
August 16, 2019Percy Bysshe Shelley’s lifetime was defined by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and severe political repression in England and elsewhere in Europe.
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