by Julian Wrobel John Howard Lawson, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Edward Dmytryk, Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, Ring Larnder Jr., Albert Maltz, Lester Cole, and Samuel Ornitz. These ten individuals known as the “Hollywood Ten” are significant insofar as they were the first victims of a systematic Hollywood blacklist: a byproduct of McCarthyism, or a desperate […]
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On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electrocution after being wrongly accused of giving secrets on the production of atomic weapons to the Soviet Union. Their trial was a political one, based off of the anti-communist view that the Soviet Union was not technologically advanced enough to harness nuclear energy on
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Statement from the Environmental Commission of the Party of Communists USA On February 3, 2023 a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, OH including five cars carrying 115,580 gallons of vinyl chloride, a highly flammable, toxic material used in the manufacture of plastic products. Norfolk Southern, with approval from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and
LEV GUMILEV For the Red Army newspaper, Summer 1945. So, the glory of the world: Not me, but many of my comrades, German culture struck me with its grandiosity. In fact, the paved roads of the Berliner ring, excellent houses with comfortable apartments, an abundance of all means of mechanization, from tractors to pencil sharpening
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New Outlook Publishers is proud to announce that we have our products available at three separate physical locations now in the United States. Our outreach is growing, and Party of Communists USA, League of Young Communists USA and New Outlook Publishers material can be found at the current bookstores:
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By Worker Wire Services. On Friday, May 19, Comrade Soumitro Banerjee of the Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist) (SUCI(C)) met with Comrade Joe Morman, Organizational Secretary of the Party of Communists USA, at the John Reed Center in Seattle, WA. At the Center, the comrades held a bilateral discussion where they talked about the
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War Representatives from over 50 countries took part in an international anti-fascist forum held at the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War in Minsk on 22 April. Speaking at the Extraordinary 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Belarus held the day
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by Zachariah Cobb As new and young comrades enter the sphere of leftist politics, many quickly become familiar with the classic “L’Internationale’, or “The Internationale” in English. This song has served the communist movement as a unifying melody, stressing the international relevance to the class struggle. Born from the struggle of the Paris Commune, this
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by G. L. Worker As part of our inaugural issue, New Masses set out to write stories about revolutionary folk singers and songwriters, what they did, and what they can teach us. We had the pleasure of sitting down with music legend and long-time activist Peggy Seeger to discuss her newest album, First Farewell, as
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by David Chakofsky In the far-eastern region of Russia, there exists a city that was built for the Jewish people by the Soviet Union. It lies about 200 kilometers North of the Amur River, which divides Russia from Northeastern China, and 200 kilometers West from Khabarovsk, a major industrial city in Russia) The very concept
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