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  • DoorDash worker Sharon Simmons is summoned to the White House to deliver McDonald's to President Donald Trump as part of a publicity stunt at the White House, April 13, 2026, in Washington. DoorDash is backing Republican efforts to strip D.C. of several financial powers that are key to Home Rule. | Alex Brandon / AP

    DoorDash vs. DC: Company joins Republicans in attacking Home Rule, sparking boycott

    Originally published: People's World on July 24, 2026 (more by People's World)  | (Posted Aug 03, 2026)

    Congressional Republicans want to sabotage the capital city’s incoming progressive government, and the owners of the DoorDash food delivery app, upset over having to pay their fair share of taxes in D.C., are helping them do it.

  • Dragging Canoe, famed Cherokee strategist, as depicted by illustrator Dann Jacobus

    The Cherokee War of 1776: A timely volume for the U.S.’ 250th anniversary

    Originally published: People's World on July 13, 2026 by Albert Bender (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2026)

    Countless historians writing Cherokee history have maintained that the majority of Cherokees remained at peace with the American colonists during the so-called American Revolution.

  • DOGE was supposed to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in government spending. It ended up finding no savings but did permanent damage to public services, most notably in the elemination of 300,000 needed federal workers. | AP

    Zero savings and 300,000 lost jobs later, DOGE is officially dead

    Originally published: People's World on July 10, 2026 by Mark Gruenberg (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jul 14, 2026)

    Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire cohort took a chainsaw to needed government programs allegedly to save money but ended up saving nothing.

  • Photo via Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)

    Medicare For All advocates relaunch drive

    Originally published: People's World on June 23, 2026 by Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2026)

    In addition to seeing it as a fix to healthcare, they see it as a major step in fixing an economy that President Trump has been rapidly ruining.

  • The only known photograph taken during the first night of the Stonewall Riots, by photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows youth scuffling with NYPD officers.

    The first Pride was a riot

    Originally published: People's World on June 10, 2026 by Rob Warzyniak (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2026)

    Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, the FBI and several police departments kept lists of known homosexuals and their friends, and even places they frequented, and the U.S. Post Office kept a list of addresses of people who received mail of a suspected homosexual nature.

  • The flag of the Sherritt mining and energy company flies alongside Cuban and Canadian flags at one of the company's facilities in Cuba. | Sherritt International

    U.S. bullies Canada’s Sherritt corporation out of Cuba

    Originally published: People's World on May 13, 2026 by C.J. Atkins (more by People's World)  | (Posted May 15, 2026)

    Toronto-based Sherritt International Corporation, the largest foreign investor in Cuba for over three decades, announced on May 7 that it was suspending all direct participation in its joint venture activities on the island and immediately bringing back its Canadian employees currently stationed in Cuba.

  • People demonstrate in front of the Orange County Jail to protest against ICE and the policies of President Donald Trump's administration, Jan. 30, 2026, in Orlando, Fla. | Phelan M. Ebenhack / AP

    Wins against ICE collaboration scored locally across the country

    Originally published: People's World on April 27, 2026 by Ed Chappell (more by People's World)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2026)

    Across the United States, an intense fight is raging against collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration’s rogue “law enforcement” arm.

  • Grindr goes public on the New York Stock Exchange, Nov. 18, 2022. | NYSE

    Grindr’s Wall Street hookup: How capitalism is killing gay sex

    Originally published: People's World on February 20, 2026 by C.J. Atkins (more by People's World)  | (Posted Feb 25, 2026)

    Grindr has been an economic pioneer; it sparked a whole industry of dating and hookup apps which wasn’t just limited to the sexually subversive. A few years later, for instance, there was Tinder, the “Grindr for straight people,” and dozens more apps have sought to mimic its success among a variety of orientations and identities.

  • Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for the premiere of her movie “Melania” at The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington.| Jose Luis Magana/AP

    ‘Melania’: The movie. The bribe. The shame.

    Originally published: People's World on February 2, 2026 by Robert Reich (more by People's World)  | (Posted Feb 04, 2026)

    If America still had a Department of Justice, Bezos would be indicted for bribery of a public official pursuant to 18 U.S. Code § 201, which criminalizes offering or giving anything of value to a public official with the intent to influence their official actions. Penalty: imprisonment for up to 15 years.

  • Trans rights supporters protest outside of Seattle Children's Hospital after the institution postponed some gender-affirming surgeries for minors following an executive order by President Donald Trump, Feb. 9, 2025, in Seattle. The hospital is now being targeted by the Department of Health and Human Services as part of a scheme by Sec. Robert F. Kennedy to deny Medicare and Medicaid funds to hospitals providing gender affirming care. | Lindsey Wasson / AP

    Kennedy’s Health Department seeks to punish hospitals for treating trans kids

    Originally published: People's World on January 28, 2026 by RAVEN RAEVSKY (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jan 30, 2026)

    Just before the holidays last year, on Dec. 18, the Department of Health and Human Services announced regulatory proposals to suspend hospitals from providing gender affirming treatments to trans youth patients.

  • Children dance at a 'Don't Shoot DC' event, July 23, 2020, in Southeast Washington, D.C. Curfews and other policies aim to make youth like these into criminals. | Jacquelyn Martin / AP

    Trump’s war on D.C.’s Black youth

    Originally published: People's World on January 14, 2026 by G. Seb (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jan 24, 2026)

    The most effective way to reduce youth crime is to reduce poverty and expand support for the families and youth most impacted. Trump’s war on Black youth is one of the many conflicts that Trump is creating amongst oppressed communities across the country, and it’s clear he won’t stop until his white supremacist goals are actualized.

  • Fozia Guirreh, a Somali Bantu woman, on Main Street, where Somali stores have taken the place of boarded-up storefronts.| David Bacon

    What is at the root of Trump’s hate towards Somalis?

    Originally published: People's World on December 12, 2025 by David Bacon (more by People's World)  |

    It’s clear that Trump hates Somalis. 

  • Salwa Saied speaks at the 41st Central Convention of the Communist Party of Canada, Dec. 6, 2025. Saied was an international guest representing the Sudanese Communist Party. People's World spoke to her on the sidelines of the convention. | C.J. Atkins / People's World

    ‘We should determine our own future’: Interview with Sudanese Communist Party

    Originally published: People's World on December 9, 2025 by C.J. Atkins (more by People's World)  | (Posted Dec 11, 2025)

    Sudan’s Communists hope that their “comrades in the world Communist movement will answer that call,” Saied said, and “do whatever they can to build an international movement to help win peace in Sudan and open the path for our people to decide our own future, free of interference and war.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson in “One Battle After Another.” | Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

    ‘One Battle After Another’ review: Scattered rollercoaster of revolution, biting humor, and political tension

    Originally published: People's World on October 3, 2025 by Chauncey K. Robinson (more by People's World)  | (Posted Oct 08, 2025)

    Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, One Battle After Another, has a lot happening, with many layers, characters, and themes.

  • At left, an ICE recruitment poster featuring President Donald Trump. At right, the 1872 painting 'American Progress' by John Gast, which depicts the westward expansion of Manifest Destiny and the forced expulsion of Native Americans, has also been used by the Department of Homeland Security to promote its anti-immigrant agenda. | Images via DHS

    ICE employing Nazi-type propaganda to recruit

    Originally published: People's World on August 12, 2025 by John Wojcik (more by People's World)  | (Posted Sep 03, 2025)

    Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recently publicly compared ICE to the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s secret police.

  • President Donald Trump waves while meeting with members of law enforcement, including National Guard soldiers, in Washington on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. | Jacquelyn Martin / AP

    Like dictators of the past, Trump is building a private army

    Originally published: People's World on August 26, 2025 by C.J. Atkins (more by People's World)  | (Posted Aug 28, 2025)

    Not since the days of Hitler’s S.A.—the “Brownshirt” stormtroopers—has a leader in an advanced capitalist country wielded a private political army outside the regular military and police forces that is answerable only to them.

  • SACP General Secretary Solly Mapaila speaks at a party congress held in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. | Photo via SACP

    What future for South Africa’s Tripartite Alliance?

    Originally published: People's World on July 17, 2025 by Sabina Price (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2025)

    Deeming the African National Congress’s electoral strategies as beyond the pale, the South African Communist Party has committed itself to a new strategy.

  • Billionaires and far-right politicians have teamed up to wage a 'global war on labor rights,' according to the latest Global Rights Index from the International Trade Union Confederation. | Tony Dejak / AP

    Global war on labor: Report says workers’ rights in freefall as right-wing power grows

    Originally published: People's World on June 2, 2025 (more by People's World)  | (Posted Jun 06, 2025)

    Around the world, workers’ rights are in “freefall,” with the Trump administration in the lead of a global far-right alliance that’s waging a “global war on labor rights.”

  • This series of photos was shared on the official Instagram account of the U.S. government-operated Voice of America - Africa radio network on Feb. 15, 2025, with the caption: "White South Africans gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Pretoria...to show their support for U.S. President Donald Trump after he criticized what he terms 'unjust' treatment of White South Africans." | Photos via @voaafrica on Instagram

    Afrikaner ‘refugee’ arrival is latest tactic in Trump’s South Africa destabilization campaign

    Originally published: People's World on May 16, 2025 by Emile Schepers (more by People's World)  | (Posted May 20, 2025)

    The news that a group of “Afrikaners” (Afrikaans-speaking white people from South Africa) have shown up in the United States, invited by the Trump administration as “refugees,” shouldn’t come as a surprise. Donald Trump is obsessed with South Africa; he has been for years.

  • The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) is in a difficult political situation, but it continues to carry on the class struggle against the capitalists who looted the Soviet people while also navigating the complexities of the war in Ukraine. | Putin photo via AP; Other photos: C.J. Atkins / People's World; Montage design: PW

    Amidst capitalist crisis and war, Russian Communists struggle against Putin and the oligarchs

    Originally published: People's World on May 2, 2025 by C.J. Atkins (more by People's World)  | (Posted May 05, 2025)

    Walking along the thoroughfares of the Russian capital these days, it’s easy to feel as though you’ve gone “Back to the Future.” Like Marty McFly in the classic 1985 movie, visitors to Moscow might imagine they’ve traveled back in time to the Soviet past, when socialism beat Hitler and the future of communism beckoned on […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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