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The German Democratic Republic, a socialist state still villainized long after its demise
October 7, 2024Oct. 7, 2024, marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the German Democratic Republic. For several years in the 1980s, People’s World Editor John Wojcik served as chair of the U.S. Committee for Friendship with...
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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ review: Disappointing sequel misses mark on story and purpose
October 4, 2024The outstanding performances in this musical/psychological thriller can’t save the film from itself.
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New book opens imaginative doors to understanding Lenin’s global legacy
October 2, 2024The book’s strength lies in the fact that most contributors avoid clichés about Stalinism or self-pitying laments about what did or did not happen after the fateful October Revolution of 1917.
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75 years ago: CPUSA celebrates the founding of the People’s Republic of China
October 1, 2024Just as William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis wrote in 1949, world peace requires a relationship of equality and cooperation between the U.S. and China.
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Anne Royall, America’s first female journalist, celebrated in world premiere play
October 1, 2024I bet not one in a thousand readers of these words has ever heard of Anne Royall (1769-1854), America’s first female journalist.
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