One of the most remarkable television series released, in the British tradition, in five numbered series had its last episodes broadcast last month on PBS stations. Little has been written about this series, Foyle’s War, a well-acted powerfully written and directed, and beautifully photographed historical series.

The mention of screenwriter John Howard Lawson conjures up images of a dauntless, spirited genius, Dean of the Hollywood Ten, a leader among artists determined to defend himself and his colleagues in the face of one of the worst, most repressive campaigns against free speech in American history.

This is a lively, comprehensive and very human account of the long life of Frederick Engels, the closest collaborator and comrade of Karl Marx.

The Cuban and the US flags fluttered together on June 19 by a monument dedicated to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were unjustly executed 55 years ago by fascist forces in the United States.

The mention of screenwriter John Howard Lawson conjures up images of a daunt, spirited genius, Dean of the Hollywood Ten, a leader among artists determined to defend himself and his colleagues in the face of one of the worst, most repressive campaigns against free speech in American history.

Well, we set it up because I have finished two books. I have a book on Alice Neal that maybe you saw some reference to, and I just finished a novel that I started out for my grandson, years ago, and I finally completed it – it’s called Iron Mountain.

The gripping drama of the skillfully written narrative in The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff reveals a generally untold angle of the civil rights movement: the press that covered it. Roberts is a veteran of the New York Times cadre of civil rights reporters, and Klibanoff is a Southern reporter.

Strategy for a Black Agenda first came out in 1973. The book was and remains a fundamental contribution to the struggle. The issues that Henry Winston raised centered on the unity of the class and national questions.

On July 6th, 1894, federal troops marched into the Panhandle railroad yards in Chicago. The soldiers had been ordered to the yards by President Grover Cleveland with orders to evict the hundreds of striking railroad workers interfering with the yard.

If there ever is a Marxist version of the "Trivial Pursuit" board game, it will have to include the following question: "Name the Communist candidate who opposed House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill in more than one general election, and received 25 percent of the vote?"

James E. Jackson, Jr., a giant in the struggle for African American equality, world peace and socialism, passed away Sept. 1, just short of his 93rd birthday. He was one of the truly heroic figures of the African American freedom movement, the progressive movement generally, and the Communist Party USA.

Is there such a thing as a “total state” or “totalitarianism”? Where does the term come from? How did it develop over time? What were and are its social purposes?

Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech, made on March 5th, 1946, before a small college audience in Fulton, Missouri, is an excellent example of events being turned inside out.

Sixty years ago the Republican 80th Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, perhaps the most important and negative single piece of domestic legislation enacted in the post World War ll era.

In the autumn of 1940, whilst Vichy was organizing the collaboration, the nucleus of a resistance network was being formed. The French Communist Party (PCF) was secretly developing a Popular Front strategy for confronting the enemy.

The term "backlash" came into popular usage in the late 1960s. It served as a mass media headline explanation for opposition and resistance to the Civil Rights movement generally and of course to Black militancy specifically, a sort of negation of the negation for those of us who are or were politically hip.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Tamiment Library at New York University on March 23rd to welcome the transmission of the Communist Party USA archives to the library.

This is a proud moment for our party. This collection contains tens of thousands of documents, books, pamphlets, photos, audio and visual records that show the real history of the Communist Party, USA.

Tonight we are celebrating the passage of a massive and unique collection of documents, photos, films, and materials from the Communist Party and the Reference Center for Marxist Studies to Tamiment Library. It is truly a historic occasion.

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned and died for human freedom against political oppression and economic slavery.