C.J. Atkins

For the first time since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, the House of Representatives has voted to rein in President Donald Trump's waging of an undeclared war.

Workers in the U.S. and around the world paid the price for a war that, by its own ceasefire terms, ends up restoring much of what existed before the first bombs fell, leaving many questioning why the war against was even launched in the first place.

On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had already declared it. The lesson of Juneteenth has never faded: Rights announced on paper mean nothing without the power to enforce them.

State capitalism, socialist market economy, New Economic Policy—whatever term supporters or critics of the Cuban Revolution want to use, it’s clear that the emergency reforms now underway in that country will bring major changes to its socialist system.

Originally published as Socialism under siege: Cuba embarks on emergency reforms to survive in People's World on June 22, 2026. State capitalism, socialist market economy, New Economic Policy — whatever term supporters or critics of the Cuban Revolution want to use, it’s clear that the em...

They want us afraid, silent, or even gone. That’s the only honest way to read what the far right has been doing to LGBTQ people in America over the past year and a half.

In the space of a single week, the contours of the Trump administration’s political strategy heading into the November midterms snapped into focus, and it is a strategy rooted in fear. Fear of a left that is winning elections. Fear of a working class that is organizing.

A specter is haunting Donald Trump—the specter of communism. Over back-to-back holiday weekend speeches marking the country’s 250th anniversary, the president delivered what amounted to a two-part anti-communist sermon, casting Karl Marx, the Communist Party USA, and the country’s fast-growing...

WASHINGTON—This Friday through Sunday, July 17-19, thousands of people across the country are expected to take part in “Good Trouble Lives On,” the sixth annual national weekend of nonviolent, nonpartisan action carried out in remembrance of Congressman John Lewis.

NEW YORK—With just over a hundred days standing between the country and the November midterm elections, the Communist Party USA’s National Committee gathered here July 11-12 with a single overriding message: Everything now runs through the fight to break MAGA’s hold on Congress.