Marxism
Lenin’s legacy: Working class leadership in the fight for democracy
April 22, 2022Without the October Revolution, the very concept of working-class rule, the idea that ordinary workers are “enough”—that they possess everything needed to create a new just world—would remain a distant dream.
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Where is Lenin when we need him?
March 3, 2022Over a century ago, the Russian leader called out imperialist war for what it was and sparked a world-shaking revolution.
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Rescuing the lost history of anti-colonial fighter and Communist W. Alphaeus Hunton
February 16, 2022Hunton, a leading figure in the struggle for African-American equality and against colonialism, was a well-known figure from the 1930s through the 1950s. The silencing of Black communist history, however, has left his life unexamined by...
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Pipeline ploy: How U.S. natural gas interests are fueling the Ukraine crisis
February 15, 2022The fracked gas giants will be the winners, whether or not there is an actual war.
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Challenging the poverty of words: Interview with progressive poet Frederick Pollack
January 12, 2022People’s World culture writer Michael Berkowitz asks about socialism, history, the future, and poetry’s role in all of those.
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