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The Discarded Soldier

November 9, 2018 By Liam O’Flaherty

“The ribbons faded on his breast. He was cast into the great city, homeless, unwanted, penniless. Capitalism no longer needed him.”

“Enemy of the people”: Trump steps up attacks on freedom of the press

November 8, 2018 By C.J. Atkins

Karl Marx once wrote, “The free press is the ubiquitous, vigilant eye of a people’s soul…the embodied culture that transforms material struggles into ideological struggles.”

Scab worker causes NYC’s Malbone subway disaster 100 years ago today

November 1, 2018 By Special to People’s World

One hundred years ago, on November 1, 1918, the worst subway accident in the history of New York City took place: the Malbone Street Wreck.

How Frankenstein and Dracula created a union

October 31, 2018 By Tom Campbell

And Karloff wasn’t the only one who saw the worth of having a union in the workplace. Dracula star Bela Lugosi was also pro-union, and the two both actively organized actors and actresses on the sets...

Jackie Robinson integrates baseball 73 years ago—Daily Worker archive

October 30, 2018 By Nat Low

Fall 1945: the “people’s war against fascism” was victorious. And creeping closer also was victory for Daily Worker's 10-year campaign to end Jim Crow baseball.