At the time of his death in 1927, he was lauded as “one of the most indicted and imprisoned workers” in the history of the American labor movement. Yet today, few know the name Charles Emil Ruthenberg.
You probably don’t think of Red Square as a cemetery, but part of it is. About 200 people are buried by the Kremlin Wall, including several Western politicians. Who are these people and why are they buried there?
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‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in February 17, 2021 11:42 AM CDT By Michael Berkowitz
The new book Faith in the Masses includes a range of topical and biographical essays from across the Communist Party USA s first century.
Faith in the Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA, edited by Tony Pecinovsky, is an ambitious undertaking almost as ambitious as the work the book describes. These essays cast a wide net aiming to capture the breadth of the Party’s efforts to change society over the last century. The celebration is heartfelt, reverent at times, hyper-romantic at others, and decidedly not uncritical.