Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Culture

Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement
March 17, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared.
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Culture

Attractive chamber works by Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on new CD
March 16, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an iconic, Afro-British composer and a descendent of freed slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War."
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Culture

‘From the Plough to the Stars: Working People’s Prose from Contemporary Ireland’
March 9, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
The collection reads almost like a tour guide, as the writers lead us through old working-class districts of Dublin and some of the new estates established to rid the cities of their slums.
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Opinion

Half a million COVID dead: Trump death cult meets shock doctrine
February 22, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
Today we are a nation of the walking wounded—those of us still above ground.
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Culture

‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski
February 16, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.
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Culture

Homage to Michael: My (East) German friend of half a century
January 15, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

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Opinion

Thanks to Trump, ‘death panels’ arrive in the City of Angels
January 6, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
Whatever you do, don’t have a heart attack or stroke in L.A.
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Culture

‘Speaker for the God’: Historical fiction about Jeremiah illuminates enduring social issues
December 14, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
Jeremiah, like other biblical prophets, was a spokesperson for the poor and powerless. He also warned the ruling class of his day to take the Babylonian threat seriously.
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