poetry

Labor stalwart Lonnie Nelson dies at 83

February 14, 2014 By Tim Wheeler

She was 83 years old and was active in the people's movements and in her Communist Party club until stricken by a stroke a few days before her death, Feb. 12.

For Valentine’s Day, a love poem

February 12, 2014 By Christopher D. Sims

I wrote this poem while sitting at a bookstore in Rockford, IL. In a creative mood, I heard a woman's voice - the rest is history.

Poem: “Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Riverfest, St. Paul, Minnesota”

February 5, 2014 By Robert Edwards

From "The Death of Communism" (Partisan Press) and reprinted with permission.

“Preoccupied”: A poem

January 17, 2014 By Tim Mills

"That's why we been preoccupied. Democracy filleted is democracy denied."

Amiri Baraka: 1934 – 2014

January 16, 2014 By Special to People’s World

"He did for the English syntax what Monk did with the chord. He was an original."