First of all, I would like to thank both the CPUSA and NYU for this marriage – it is one, perhaps not made in heaven but no less celestial and lofty for that.

This past Friday (3-23-07), hundreds of people gathered at the Tamiment Library at New York University to welcome the transmission of hundreds of thousands of archival pieces from the Communist Party USA to the library.

What would the world be without the Communist movement, and what would the United States be without the CPUSA? Let me summarize very quickly.

Claudia Jones was born Claudia Cumberbatch in 1915 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, a British colony. Though her family was well off, economic crisis after World War I forced the family to migrate to the Harlem section of New York City in 1922 to seek work.

One of the most interesting areas of cultural study is the impact of membership in the Communist Party USA on artists and writers. In some cases, such as Richard Wright, one of many, some of the most important and socially critical work was done while engaged with the Party itself or with forces close to the Party.

"Let's see by a show of hands-how many of you have read Paul Robeson's book, Here I Stand?" The question was directed by Dizzy Gillespie to a large audience that attended a tribute to Robeson sponsored in New York by Local 1199, Drug and Hospital Union.

One of the most prominent and influential leaders of the American left will begin a speaking tour of Britain next week, during what is appropriately Black History Month. Jarvis Tyner has been a tireless fighter for civil rights since the campaigns of his youth in his native Philadelphia.

The Communist Party, USA was founded 87 years ago this week. Despite government efforts, the Party remains and active and vibrant force on the left.

As a socialist, I favor university intellectuals finding a way to relate to working people, especially rank-and-file labor organizations. At the least, intellectuals might be involved in community organizations – but as learners as much as teachers.

After he had an article published in Collier’s magazine, Philip Bonosky returned to Duquesne, Pennsylvania, the steel town where he had grown up.

It is the sixty-fourth anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack and some scholars are trying to revive the old rightwing "isolationist" arguments that the Roosevelt administration knew about the attacks and let them happen to get the U.S. into the war.

Morgan's book has a special focus on the contributions of "social realist" writers, poets, and artists who were African American. These artists and their work were closely connected to the social conditions in which they lived... For this reason, art for them could not simply be a passive receptacle of idealized beauty, but needed to be an active medium through which the artists could help transform the world.

The PARTIDO KOMUNISTA NG PILIPINAS (PKP-1930, or Philippine Communist Party) will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its public proclamation on November 7, 2005, which will coincide with the 88th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

Eight-and-a-half million Soviet soldiers fought against fascist Germany and imperialist Japan outside Soviet frontiers and fully and partially liberated 13 European and Asian counties with a total population of nearly 150 million people...The Soviet Union defeated the striking aggressive force of imperialism at that time and thereby made the decisive contribution to the consolidation of peace on earth and ensured the right of peoples to decide their own fate.

Many Germans still debate whether the war's end 60 years ago was a cause for jubilation or mourning. The current government position is to call it "liberation", especially on major well-reported occasions, but not to forget the mourning part either.

May 9th Celebration of 60th anniversary of Russian Patriotic War against Nazi Germany

The French are honoring their most famous 20th century thinker – Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980).

WHEN Tamara and Fiona Baur returned from Cuba last summer, several people asked why the solidarity brigade that they had worked with was called Olga Benario.

Now that the Soviet Union has past into history many people are writing books and articles trying to explain what happened. Perhaps some books written before the event are more enlightening then many written after it.

It is good, at certain hours of the day and night, to look closely at the world of objects at rest. Wheels that have crossed long, dusty distances with their mineral and vegetable burdens, sacks from the coal bins, barrels, and baskets, handles and hafts for the carpenter’s tool chest.

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