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New series: 100 Years of the Communist Party USA

April 16, 2019 By People’s World

Start thinking and start writing. A chance like this only comes along every 100 years.

Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: Daily Worker archives 1947

April 15, 2019 By Lester Rodney

"The cheers for Robinson are saying something, something that will make it easier for Negro players to come, for the day when there’ll be no special pressure upon an American ballplayer whose skin happens to be...

Exposing capitalism’s exploitative nature: The life and writings of B. Traven

April 2, 2019 By Jenny Farrell

Traven is one of the most widely read working-class writers of the 20th century.

San Francisco Art Institute hosts Hollywood Blacklist festival and panel

March 28, 2019 By Special to People’s World

Starting in 1947, the FBI and U.S. government persecuted artists and activists, driving many into exile during the Hollywood Blacklist/McCarthyism Cold War era.

‘Sobibor’ dramatizes a successful heroic revolt in a Nazi death camp

March 28, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

In 2018, resistance fighters around the world commemorated the 75th anniversary of the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.