"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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PABLO Neruda, poet, political activist and a simple human being was considered a legend in his lifetime and many think that after his death he got resurrected more like a living heroic figure that inspired one and all. García Márquez considers him the greatest poet of the 20th century.

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Film noir is a movie genre with roots going back to Weimar Germany and the Freudian nightmare. Classic noir revolved around the theme of an ordinary man trapped by fate, a false step or a femme fatale. Yet there was another aspect to film noir that shined a light, for those who cared to look, on the underside of the post-war “American Dream.”

The socialist and communist idea has long inspired the search for a better way of life. Many things that are today taken for granted from Social Security to unemployment insurance come out of this quest. Indeed, it would be difficult to overstate its impact. This applies not only to day-to-day working-class struggles but also to the realm of ideas.

Beginning with the "ghetto riot" at the Stonewall Bar in Greenwich Village in 1969, an open gay rights movement emerged and had been a significant force in the larger people's movement. Before the Stonewall uprising, however, an instrumental figure in the movement for lesbian and gay rights was Harry Hay, a one-time member of the Communist Party USA, a trade unionist and cultural activist. Hay helped found the first gay liberation group in the US, laid a theoretical basis for gay rights, and helped pave the way for the rebellions of the 1960s and beyond.

If she had been a partisan of capitalism, Louise Thompson Patterson would have been a Horatio Alger heroine, lionized today as a pioneering woman of the Harlem Renaissance and a role model for both African Americans and women.