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

Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles takes a knee
July 3, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
A ten-year landmark has just passed in this city. Only a few thousand people took notice of it, but wow, did they stand up and cheer!
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Books

‘Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America’
July 2, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
Clearly not meant to be “read like a novel,” as a work of scholarship in a field of profound interest to radicals, it merits a worthy place on your shelf.
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Arts

Interracial unity ends discriminatory ‘Mexican Day’ at L.A.’s Bimini Baths
June 27, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
It was a gift to experience this trilogy in all its historical, cultural and artful depth.
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Arts

‘The Humans’: 2016 Tony Award-winning Best Play dissects American social decline
June 26, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
Maybe just zeroing in on the problems of an inhumane society is enough to stir the conscience.
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Opinion

The struggle for democracy continues: German and American perspectives
June 22, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
The struggle for democracy is in high gear—or as they say in the global South, a luta continua, the struggle continues.
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Arts

Washing the crime away: ‘Tar’ and ‘The Women of Lockerbie’
June 20, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
My weekend playgoing curiously featured two plays centered on the theme of washing crime away.
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Arts

‘Skeleton Crew’: Detroit workers’ jobs, homes, pensions, and lives on the line
June 18, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon And Dale Greenfield
This play enacts the hollowing-out of American industry in the Great Recession years that began late in George W. Bush’s presidency.
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Arts

Young Asian-Americans pursue dreams of success in ‘As We Babble On’
June 12, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon
As America moves toward ever greater multi-ethnic nationality, will more democratic racial and gender representation in the halls of success do anything to alter the hardening class divide?
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