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This week in history: Paris Peace Accords signed, Vietnam War draws down

January 26, 2018 By Special to People’s World

Forty-five years ago, on Jan. 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords effectively removed the United States from the conflict in Vietnam.

José Martí, soul of the Cuban Revolution

January 22, 2018 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

It might seem an anomaly that a socialist nation takes on as its national hero a non-socialist, but that exemplifies the nature of Cuba’s brand of politics.

Rhode Island commemorating MLK’s radical life this spring

January 22, 2018 By Andrew Stewart

“We've lost sight of probably the most important parts of Dr. King’s message” - the radical and socialist parts, says Mike Araujo, director of Rhode Island Jobs with Justice.

Sidney Finkelstein: an appreciation of the great Marxist cultural critic

January 19, 2018 By Daniel Rosenberg

The Marxist cultural critic Sidney Finkelstein lived in a suitcase in my mother’s closet.

Historians find parallels between Hitler’s Nazis and today’s “alt-right”

January 11, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

A panel of historians says there are more parallels than people realize between the U.S. alt-right and the real Nazis—the ones led by Hitler from the 1920s to 1945.