C.J. Atkins is the managing editor at People's World. With a Ph.D. in political science and a strong background in political economy, he focuses on the intersection of culture and society, government and politics, and international affairs, often exploring themes related to conflict, current affairs, and cultural movements. C.J. has been featured in publications such as the Communist Party USA, Long View Publishing Co., and Black Agenda.
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By: C.J. Atkins
Elections across Britain on May 7 delivered a political earthquake on multiple fronts. The far-right Reform U.K. party recorded sweeping gains in England, Wales, and Scotland, while the Labour Party of Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered devastating losses across the board.
TORONTO—A sweeping new executive order signed by President Donald Trump has forced one of Canada's most significant foreign investors out of Cuba, drawing sharp condemnation from solidarity groups who say Washington is using financial coercion to override the sovereign economic decisions of other...
By: C.J. Atkins
After kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January and killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the following month, President Donald Trump declared “Cuba is next.
The electoral districts being redrawn across America right now aren’t just random lines on state maps. They’re blueprints for a Congress that answers to no one—certainly not to working people, of any color. It started in Texas last summer, when Donald Trump ordered Gov.
Donald Trump keeps saying he’s not worried about the midterms. He says it the way a card player says he’s not worried—when he’s already seen the other guy’s hand.
By: 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.
By: C.J. Atkins
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.
By: C.J. Atkins
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...
