Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, 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

Arts

“The Fits”: An adolescent girl at the edge of transformation
June 3, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
A girls' dance competition in Cincinnati sets the stage for this art-house film.
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Arts

“Gruesome Playground Injuries”: Wounds, blood, and scars on theatrical display
June 2, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
This two-person tour de force is playing through June 26 at the Hudson Backstage in Los Angeles.
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Labor

UCLA Labor Center graduates 50 new activists for workers
May 24, 2016 By Ismael Parra And Eric A. Gordon
Los Angeles' leading scholarly research institution on labor issues provides brainpower to the fight for 15 and against wage theft.
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Labor

United flight attendants demonstrate worldwide for a contract
May 20, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
The principal demands were for better pay that at least matches that in other airline companies, quality healthcare, and retiree benefits.
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Arts

Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”: A shocking protest against capitalist barbarism
May 19, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
It's a product of the post-World War I Expressionist school, with exaggerated characters, writ in bold strokes, often with harsh, mordant commentary.
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Opinion

Opium of the masses? Religion and 21st century socialism
May 18, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
There cannot be many socialist movements in the world today that are avowedly, militantly atheist. Those days are over.
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Opinion

Fifty years out of college and finally (almost) normal
May 17, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
Over the weekend of June 2-5 I'll be attending my Yale Class of 1966 50th reunion in New Haven, Conn.
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U.S.

We asked a Muslim: Women’s rights in Islam
May 12, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
"Ask a Muslim" is a monthly series, that is free and open to the public, that addresses the public's questions surrounding Islam today.
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