Sometime in the late 1980s, Baltimore Friends of the People’s Weekly World were organizing a fundraising banquet for the paper at the Steelworkers’ union hall in Dundalk. Ultimately, the banquet took place. Oakland Mayor Gus Newport came and spoke. Jim Jackson, George Meyers, and other leaders of the Communist Party were there. It was a … Continue reading Ben Riskin, the Communist behind “portal-to-portal” pay