As someone who has done extensive research over decades into the history of anti-communism in the US, I see Daniel Rosenberg's new memoir, Underground Communists in the McCarthy Period, as towering above the “red diaper baby” literature that has emanated from some children of Communist Party activists over the last generation.

Interviewed here are Robbie Lieberman and Clarence Lang who are co-editors of a new book titled Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement (Palgrave Macmillan).

As military columns led by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and others took over Cuba in 1959, Fidel Castro went from a larger-than-life revolutionary figure to a leader who would galvanize allies and opponents alike for the next 50 years.

Studs Terkel was synonymous with the everyperson, heart of the hoi polloi. In one of his last interviews he repeated a story he enjoyed telling about encountering a couple of vocally anti-union Young Urban Professionals in his hometown of Chicago.

Rome, as the old truism goes, wasn’t built in a day. Or in 100 days. Neither was the New Deal government led by Franklin Roosevelt of the 1930s, which eventually accepted and implemented major reforms in the interest of labor and the whole American people.

The blogosphere has lately witnessed some interest in a lecture, "Understanding Marxism" posted by Professor Brad Delong of the University of California and a former Clinton administration official.

On May 7 Vietnam celebrated the 55th anniversary of its decisive victory over US–backed French colonialist forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War.

Last Sunday's election in El Salvador, in which the leftist FMLN (Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation) won the presidency, didn't get a lot of attention in the international press. It's a relatively small country (7 million people on land the size of Massachusetts) and fairly poor.

The conception of art as a weapon has been promoted during various trying times in history of the American people. In the twentieth century, the period from the early 1900s to the end of the Great Depression is most often cited for its protest arts.

An October 2007 article in The Wall Street Journal intended to deprecate Ernesto “Che” Guevara on the 40th anniversary of his assassination in Bolivia. Instead, the article was an unintentionally eloquent description of his significance in the Americas.

This February, as we celebrate African American history month, the first African American president will be sitting in the White House, something that few Americans saw as a possibility at the turn of the 21st century.

In 1917, Woodrow Wilson's Attorney General, Thomas Gregory, persuaded Congress to pass the Espionage Act, which contained provisions for government censorship of public discussion of the First World War.

The Rosenberg “atomic spy” case is 58 years old, yet its reverberations are still being felt. It is still being used to either justify or condemn some of the worst excesses of the Cold War period. This past September, the release of previously secret grand jury testimony that appears to further exonerate Ethel Rosenberg and an alleged "admission" by Morton Sobell made news.

Often reading like a murder mystery, Paul Preston's narrative on the Spanish civil war sweeps the reader along with vivid and sympathetic descriptions of his subjects.

Hace pocas semanas recibí una alerta por correo electrónico de un amigo, a tomar acción a favor de la Federación Norteamericana de Empleados Estatales, de Condado y Municipales (AFSCME, por sus siglas en inglés) defendiéndoles a los trabajadores públicos de California frente a los graves recortes presupuestales propuestos por el gobernador Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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.