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A Portugal diary: People, places, and memory
October 19, 2022People’s World staff member Eric Gordon on his first visit back to Portugal since the fall of the fascist dictatorship nearly half-a-century ago.
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Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist
October 13, 2022Members of the motion picture industry who refused to “cooperate” by informing on themselves and others about their leftist politics were forbidden from working in the movies.
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The sinking of El Faro: Sailors take warning…of disaster capitalism
October 12, 2022The backdrop is a sustained attack on mariners and their working conditions.
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Ronald Reagan rehabilitation fails to see how his politics gave us Trump
September 29, 2022As Donald Trump continues to helm the Republican Party toward fascism, Ronald Reagan is getting a break, sort of, from some on the left.
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Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists’ business empires
September 23, 2022Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War—a racist system known as convict leasing.
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