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Former People’s World editor Tim Wheeler on book tour

October 5, 2017 By Gabe Falsetta

Tim Wheeler says that optimism, even in these most unpredictable and difficult times, is what defines communists.

Reflections on Revolution—the Russian and the one to come

October 4, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

We need to clear out all the cobwebs of received opinion and reassess the Russian Revolution if we are ever to create a socialism worthy of the name.

This week in history: “Howl” has literary merit, not obscene

October 3, 2017 By Special to People’s World

Poetry has never since been tried for obscenity in the United States.

Burns and Novick’s PBS series “The Vietnam War”: Cautionary viewing advised

October 2, 2017 By Tony Long

As a human story, it’s hard not to have sympathy for the majority of the people in this documentary, regardless of ideology.

This week in history: Little Rock Central High School integrated

September 25, 2017 By Special to People’s World

A group of nine African-American students, enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was initially prevented by Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened with federal troops to accompany the...