The Comintern of 1935 tasked all Communists to become the patriots of their countries against fascism. We will focus on the campaign led by the Daily Worker journalist Lester Rodney, under the leadership of the Party to make “Communism 20th century Americanism,” by writing in the press, creating YCL-led picketing, and collecting petitions to integrate […]
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Originally published on the People’s Housing Council’s new website: https://peopleshousingcouncil.org/ Finding affordable housing has been a problem in the United States for years. Because of this, the number of homeless has greatly increased to where it has become a national problem. The for-profit housing system is the root cause of this homelessness epidemic. As ownership
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“The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg” details the events surrounding the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19, 1953. It includes interviews, filmed decades later, from several individuals who were involved in the case. These interviews detail the numerous flaws in the Rosenberg case, which was in reality nothing
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“They robbed me of my sight, but not my vision.” With these words in 1961 Henry Winston challenged the blindness caused by deliberate neglect of his health while imprisoned as a Communist leader under the Smith Act frameup. Born in Mississippi in 1911, grandson of a slave, he was National Chairman of the Communist Party,
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photo: Philip Bonosky with Ho Chi Minh After he had an article published in Collier’s magazine, Philip Bonosky returned to Duquesne, Pennsylvania, the steel town where he had grown up. A fellow worker had shown his father the article, and few working class people in the town had ever had anything published. In a recent
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Originally published on Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/en/ Tuesday, August 20th, 2024, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) endorsing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Fain would go on to talk about how Harris is “one of us”, a “fighter for the working class”, and how both
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This short was produced for the Peoples School for Marxist-Leninist Studies class on R. Palme Dutt’s “Fascism and Social Revolution”. To learn more, visit https://peoplesschool.us/. What Was the “Third Period”? The “Third Period” refers to an analysis which was developed at the Sixth Congress of the Communist International, or Comintern, in 1928. The analysis at
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In many ways, Dalton Trumbo’s story is a truly American one. Overcoming his humble roots, Trumbo rose to the top of his profession, becoming one of Hollywood’s most sought after and highly paid screenwriters in the process. But Trumbo’s livelihood would be stripped from him when he, like hundreds of other Hollywood screenwriters, actors, directors,
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