Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, retired People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Labor

Los Angeles braces itself for a teachers strike Monday morning
January 11, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
Only the highly visible public drama of a District-wide strike will draw sufficient attention to the multiplicity of problems, many of them of a fiscal nature, that plague public education.
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Culture

RBG hits the big screen again in ‘On the Basis of Sex’
January 9, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has so many fervent admirers, she’s practically become a cottage industry in America.
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Culture

‘Communism for Kids’—but mostly for grownups with imagination
December 27, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
A reader with some background in socialist thinking will readily identify the hopeful, optimistic conclusion with some skepticism, smacking as it does of the early “utopians."
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Labor

Saying “Enough is enough!” Los Angeles teachers set strike date
December 21, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
A line has been drawn in the sand. All eyes are now set on Jan. 10, 2019.
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World

Wealth, poverty in Zacatecas: Two sides of the same silver coin
December 18, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
Irony runs deep in Zacatecas: The state’s Latin motto is “Labor vincit omnia”—Work conquers all, including its people.
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World

Preparing the base for Mexico’s new president
December 13, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
“We’re in the middle of a battle. We need not just generals, but an army."
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Politics

Democrat TJ Cox upsets Republican in California’s 21st CD
December 10, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
The California delegation currently stands at 46 Democrats to 7 Republicans.
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World

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promises new hope for Mexico’s future
December 7, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
The new President’s party, Morena, is a coalition of left of center political parties that aims to give a political voice to masses of Mexican people.
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