John Bachtell

John Bachtell is president of Long View Publishing Co., the publisher of People's World. He served as national chair of the CPUSA from 2014 to 2019. He is active in electoral, labor, environmental, and social justice struggles. He grew up in Ohio, Pittsburgh, and Albuquerque and attended Antioch College. He currently lives in Chicago where he is an avid swimmer, cyclist, runner, and dabbler in guitar and occasional singer in a community chorus.

LATEST ARTICLES BY John Bachtell

Opinion

Elon Musk is turning Twitter into a fascist free-for-all
December 8, 2022 By John Bachtell
The platform is going down the sewer quickly, and many wonder whether it will survive.
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Opinion

Reproductive rights voter wave swamps MAGA trickle
December 1, 2022 By John Bachtell
The GOP is captive to the MAGA fascist movement and the right wing of the evangelical and Catholic Churches and cannot break with them.
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Labor

Ohio Democrat Ryan in high stakes battle with venture capitalist Vance
November 4, 2022 By John Bachtell
Energized union members in Cleveland cheer his prediction of victory in the down-to-the-wire push to save democracy.
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Politics

The national fight to save democracy reflected in local Ohio races
November 1, 2022 By John Bachtell
Leronda Jackson’s quest for the position of state representative from Dayton, Ohio reflects determination nationally to wrest state bodies from GOP control.
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Opinion

Republicans blame Biden for inflation, but their economic record is the real disaster
October 19, 2022 By John Bachtell
Polls show voters think Republicans are better on the economy. This mistaken view is nothing new.
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Culture

No art without art workers: Philly museum strike carries on
October 13, 2022 By John Bachtell
180 Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) curators, educators, archivists, and other art workers aren’t feeling the love from one of the nation’s oldest and most venerable art institutions.
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Politics

Republicans crank up their hypocrisy and lie machines in Georgia
October 7, 2022 By John Bachtell
They stick by flawed candidate Herschel Walker because, without that state, they see no path to taking over the U.S. Senate.
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Culture

New book, ‘Power Concedes Nothing,’ collects insights from on-the-ground electoral organizers
October 5, 2022 By John Bachtell
Every page contains a treasure of lessons from those on the front lines in the work of grassroots voter mobilization, political infrastructure development, and coalition building in some of the most critical battleground states.
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