personal stories

Mark Rogovin, 1946 – 2019; Artist, activist, organizer

October 4, 2019 By Special to People’s World

Family and friends of Mark Rogovin mourn his passing at the age of 73.

Peggy Lipschutz: Artist with a cause

September 25, 2019 By Susan Webb

People’s World received news of the passing of artist Peggy Lipshutz at the age of 102. The interview below first appeared in the print edition of PWW in March 2006.

Letter carrier’s beat up boots kick it at MDA summer camp

August 5, 2019 By John Dick

I look down at the boots: a pair of black Tony Lama cowboy boots bought in a little store in Bandera, Texas in 1998 on my 39th birthday.

Victory for long term care, but sharp fight to protect rural health care

May 23, 2019 By Tim Wheeler

It is a war on two fronts, a case of government giving with one hand and taking away with the other.

New York-born GI who defected to the East back in USA

May 22, 2019 By Cameron Orr

Grossman is speaking about his new book: A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. The book tells about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990 and reasons for the fall of socialism...