People's World - 100th Anniversary
The death of the Soviet Union: Our Moscow correspondent reports in 1991
December 20, 2024On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the red hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. The next day, Dec. 26, the USSR...
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General Motors’ 1991 Christmas Massacre: 21 plants, 74,000 jobs gone
December 19, 2024At Christmastime in 1991, GM boss Robert Stempel became the new Ebenezer Scrooge.
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1951: Truman launches propaganda campaign to distract from ‘We Charge Genocide’ petition
December 18, 2024As William L. Patterson and Paul Robeson were about to expose the crimes of the U.S. government against Black Americans, the Truman administration lied, telling the world that Black life was great in America.
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Lenin in Seattle
November 7, 2024The story of how Russia’s revolutionary leader influenced the American workers who rose up in the Seattle General Strike of 1919.
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1933: Communist Party packs Madison Square Garden for anti-fascist rally
November 1, 2024With Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally drawing comparisons to the Nazi event hosted at the same venue in 1939, we look back to 1933 when the Communist Party USA packed the Garden to launch the united...
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