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– Ronald Reagan   June 27 1778 – The Liberty Bell is returned to Philadelphia from Northampton Town (now Allentown) where it is hidden until after the British depart following the Revolutionary War. 1833 – Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut. 1893 – The New York stock market crashes. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads have gone out of business. This is why the period of time following the st...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Life and times of Claudia Jones: In her own words February 25, 2021 1:43 PM CDT By Claudia Jones Claudia Jones, then the secretary of the Womens Commission of the Communist Party USA, is pictured at the partys national office in New York City, Jan. 22, 1948. | Peoples World Arch...

but the Left gets on their bandwagon by Stansfield Smith / February 22nd, 2021 The Democrats’ second trial of Trump ends like the first: the outcome known in advance, the entire process designed to sell to the anti-Trump masses that the Democrats were leading some progressive counter-attack. Both impeachments enabled these politicians to present a national diversion to avoid addressing real issues the US people suffer from: the pandemic, lack of vaccines, no national health care program, incr...

With growing tensions between nations and the rise of fascism in many parts of the world DAVID HORSLEY reminds us of the case of a great US anti-racist

The Senior Editor The US has been at war with Bolsheviks, not since 1918 but since 1848.  The revolutions in Europe that sent millions to the US of immigrants to the US is something our American Bolshevik overlords have erased from our history. Germany, Austria, France, Italy and even Britain faced a Bolshevik takeover under the guise of ending monarchies.  Every nation was hit.  This wasn’t happenstance, it was a full fledged “Arab Spring” organized by the Freemasons (read “Rothschi...

Freedomways, the African American journal of politics and culture that for nearly a quarter century chronicled the civil rights and Black freedom movements beginning in the early 1960s, started in 1961, a year that was a kind of transitional one for the civil rights movement. The sit-ins that had begun in early 1960, and the continuing demonstrations and emerging fervor, had made national headlines, but the movement hadn’t yet achieved the national stature that it would a couple of years late...

The Senior Editor Trump is being tried before the US Senate, where many of the members are “fake people,” longtime Russian assets paid through accounts in the Cayman Islands.  Many of them are “cuckoos,” or “walkins.” Some senators are being threatened, not by militia types but by senior Federal officials from law enforcement related agencies.  It isn’t about Trump, it’s about closing the door on where a real investigation of Trump would lead, not just to Moscow but back here,...

February 15, 2021 MilitantEighteen SWP and Teamster leaders on their way to federal prison, Dec. 31, 1943. They were framed up for leading labor opposition to U.S. rulers’ war drive. James P. Cannon, third from right, partly obscured. Defendants were first victims of thought-control Smith Act. by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Cannon was the lead defendant among 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis ...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. ‘We Accuse’: The Communist Party USA’s answer to 1948 conspiracy charges February 5, 2021 9:34 AM CDT By Eugene Dennis Left to right: Some of the top leaders of the Communist Party USA swept up in the 1948 Red Scare dragnet descend the steps of the Federal Courthouse in Ne...

With coup label, Capitol rioters join communist party and White supremacists, university project says The Capitol rioters have joined a small but notorious cadre in the annals of history: a trio that since the end of World War II has attempted to stage coups against the United States of America, a university tracking project finds. The others were a neo-Nazi and members of the American communist party. The Coup D’etat Project, an initiative of the University of Illinois’ Cline Center for Ad...