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The women who helped lead the Russian Revolution

November 6, 2017 By Mary Davis

Lenin would later say: “Without them, we would not have been victorious.”

U.S. Communists: Defeating fascism first step for dealing with capitalist crisis

November 6, 2017 By Scott Hiley And Dee Miles

CPUSA delegates at the international Communist meeting in Russia said the defeat of fascism is first step in dealing with the current crisis of capitalism.

This week in history: Centennial of the October Revolution in Russia

November 6, 2017 By Special to People’s World

This week we publish the poem “October” by Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof (or Mariengof in Russian), who lived from 1897 to 1962.

Goodbye Lenin: Ecuador’s Moreno sacked from ruling party, retains presidency

November 3, 2017 By James Tweedie

The move leaves Moreno in office but without the support of the left-wing PAIS Alliance majority in the National Assembly.

The Bolshevik Revolution: Unacknowledged inspiration of liberation movements everywhere

November 3, 2017 By Lowell B. Denny, III

While our gaze is fixed on the 1960s as a time of radical resistance, we must redirect our attention to the initial decades after 1917 as the more radical epoch.