anti-communism

“Trumbo”: We’re still persecuting the innocent

October 20, 2015 By Bill Meyer

Director Jay Roach, known for lighter fare, has taken on a heady subject, no less than the most famous communist in Hollywood history -- Dalton Trumbo.

Today in history: Half a million Communists massacred in Indonesia

October 20, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Fifty years ago, the massacre of more than 500,000 people in an anti-communist purge led to the elimination of the Indonesian Communist Party as a political force.

Today in history: Musician/activist Leonard Bernstein is born

August 25, 2015 By Eric A. Gordon

Bernstein became the most prominent American-born conductor and a supremely talented musician, educator and composer.

Ingeborg Rapoport: A doctor’s degree at 102

June 24, 2015 By Victor Grossman

Few of the media reports told the full story, not only about the anti-Semitism of the Nazis at its beginning but about the anti-Communism which later followed.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s final day: June 19th, 1953

June 19, 2015 By Jennifer Meeropol

At the height of the Cold War anti-communist hysteria, the lives of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were extinguished. On the anniversary of their executions, their granddaughter has a message.