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Eugene Debs: Dreaming of a red Christmas

December 18, 2013 By Jon Hochschartner

It's worthwhile to remember Christmas 1921, the day that arguably the most successful socialist in American history, Eugene Debs, was released from prison.

Seattle elects socialist to city council

December 9, 2013 By Tim Wheeler

Seattle voters shocked the political establishment here, Nov. 5, when they elected an avowed socialist, Kshama Sawant, to the nine-member Seattle City Council.

Today in labor history: Popular Socialist Youth formed

November 18, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On November 18, 1944 in Cuba, the Popular Socialist Youth was founded, as a continuation of the Cuban Revolutionary Youth.

1917 Russian Revolution: What the world has lost

November 8, 2013 By Emile Schepers

It has been 96 years since the Russian Revolution and 22 years since the Soviet Union, collapsed and broke into pieces, and the world lost much in that collapse.

The New York Times describes an East German model city — and is fair!

November 6, 2013 By Victor Grossman

The author did not embroider what she saw or heard. The result did tend to make me angry, but not because of prejudice or dishonesty; it was because of the story she told.