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Anti-fascist film ‘La guerre est finie’ to screen in L.A.

August 21, 2018 By Special to People’s World

The film takes place in 1965 in France and Spain. One of the ideological issues at stake is how best to oppose Franco’s dictatorship.

‘Yiddish Glory’ CD records Jewish pain and resistance in World War II

August 20, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Even as WWII was still raging, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars undertook an ambitious project of preserving Jewish culture of the 1940s while and soon after it was created. Linguists, folklorists, and historians joined to...

This week in history: The Oslo Accord, 1993

August 20, 2018 By Special to People’s World

Negotiations concerning the agreement were conducted secretly in Oslo, Norway, and completed 25 years ago, on August 20, 1993.

The difference between socialism and reformism

August 20, 2018 By Rick Nagin

“Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring good to all."

Communists need not apply

August 17, 2018 By C.J. Atkins

Rooting out employees who are members of the Communist Party was unconstitutional during the Cold War. It still is.