history
Karl Marx at 200
May 4, 2018The material conditions of life are prompting people to question the system, to ask why things are the way they are. It's little wonder, then, that Marx is making a comeback.
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Filipino migrants gave grape strike its radical politics
May 3, 2018The great Delano grape strike started on September 8, 1965, when Filipino pickers stayed in their labor camps, and refused to go into the fields.
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This week in history: The bicentennial of Karl H. Marx
May 2, 2018This poem appeared in The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse, edited by Alan Bold, 1970.
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This week in history: Protesting students occupy Columbia University
April 23, 2018Fifty years ago, at the height of protest against the Vietnam War, the actions at Columbia University in New York City were among the most highly visible and effective.
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Gay rights in the Communist press: Recollections of a seminal article
April 18, 2018People's World writer Eric Gordon remembers when "the winds of perestroika" finally blew in 1990 and he was invited to write the first article on gay rights to appear in the U.S. Communist press.
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