McCarthyism

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist

October 13, 2022 By Ed Rampell

Members 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.

Stefan Heym: A central witness to both fascism and socialism in Germany

December 17, 2021 By John Ellison

Fleeing the Nazis to become a best-selling author in the U.S., then forced by McCarthyism to settle in the GDR in the '50s, he would go on to open the reunified German parliament in 1994.

Loyalty oaths for teachers in Florida’s new Red Scare

June 28, 2021 By Amiad Horowitz

Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida schools have become “socialism factories,” and a new law he signed will require state schools to survey the political affiliations of all their teaching staff.

Historians say CNN wrong to compare Communists to Trump’s coup plotters

February 12, 2021 By Special to People’s World

CNN has its history wrong when it comes to equating the Trump coup to the 1948 Communist conspiracy trials, say a group of prominent academics.

June 19, 1953: The murder of the Rosenbergs

June 13, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

Think back to the political climate of the early 1950s: Senator Joseph McCarthy on the prowl. Alger Hiss convicted of “losing China.” Eleven leaders of the Communist Party convicted of “conspiracy to teach and advocate the...