TOKYO—The Japanese Communist Party on March 29 submitted to the House of Councillors a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the country. JCP Dietmembers Nihi Sohei, Kurabayashi Akiko, and Ito Gaku...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, issued a joint demand Thursday that NATO halt its plans for further expansion and end their continued push to whip up a “Cold...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) visited Cuba on May 8-9. He began by highlighting regional unity as good for equal promotion of economic development for all states.

Citing a 1955 law that declared the Communist Party illegal in the state of Oklahoma, organizers of Oklahoma City Pride blocked local Reds from having a booth alongside other community organizations...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping opened the Communist Party’s 20th Congress Sunday promising to reinforce “a new pattern of development” focused on domestic rather than export-led growth and reducing...

Neo-Nazi forces from the notorious Azov Battalion were said to have suffered a heavy defeat in Ukraine on Thursday as fierce fighting continues. The Donetsk People’s Republic militia claimed to have...

The following statement was released by the Communist Party USA on June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is a horrific setback for women their...

WASHINGTON—Attempting to deflect attention from his criminal indictment on charges of violating the Espionage Act, former President Donald Trump is escalating his use of anti-communist and anti-Sem...

SANTIAGO, Chile—A Communist woman is now in charge of Chile’s Chamber of Deputies, much to the dismay of the country’s right wing. Karol Cariola—37, a midwife and former president of the Federation...

MINNEAPOLIS—With the first white cop in Minnesota going to prison for killing a Black man, there is joy and relief in the city of Minneapolis. Nowhere is this moment felt more deeply than in the...

Cuba is a terrorist state—at least in the opinion of the U.S. Department of State. In 1982, President Ronald Regan added Cuba to the U.S. roster of countries that supposedly promote international...

The Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) was permanently banned Tuesday after a Lviv court ruling which turned over all its assets, including party buildings and funds, to the state.

Cuba’s socialist approach to developing vaccines against Covid-19 differs strikingly from that of capitalist nations of the world developing vaccines.

JERUSALEM—A lawmaker with the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) coalition and leading Communist Party of Israel (CPI) member, Ofer Cassif, has told Al Jazeera that his party warned...

The Communist Party USA expresses its growing alarm and concern at the horrific violence in Palestine and Israel over the weekend. We join with the Communist Party of Israel, the Democratic Front for...

WASHINGTON—On Tuesday, May 16, 2023, the D.C. Council unanimously voted to urge President Joe Biden and Congress to end the 60+ year economic blockade against Cuba and to remove the country’s...

In a report released Jan. 13, Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland Marie Anderson said there was evidence of “collusive behavior” by some British officers in the murder of 19 people and the attemp...

Despite the slanted propaganda that passes for “news” in the Western corporate media right now, the truth of the matter is that there are no good guys when it comes to the conflict in Ukraine. But...

United States Special Operational forces have been involved in at least 23 secretive proxy wars across the world on a scale far greater than previously known, new documents indicate.

WASHINGTON, D.C.– In late October, the Claudia Jones School for Political Education and the New Dawn Podcast co-hosted scholar Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and artist Boots Riley for an evening...

DETROIT—The fight against predatory landlords has reached a new stage of struggle in the Motor City. On March 21, after months of grassroots struggle for the protection of local resident Taura Brown...

TOKYO—The Japanese Communist Party made history recently by electing its first woman party leader. Tomoko Tamura was appointed as the new Chair of the JCP Executive Committee by delegates to the...

September 1st is the anniversary of the 1919 founding the Communist Party USA. Presented here is an edited selection of excerpts from Philip Bart and William Weinstone, who wrote about the CPUSA’s...

Betty Smith, longtime member of the Communist Party USA and former president of the Marxist book company International Publishers, passed away on April 6, 2022, in New York City, at the age of 95.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India—The Communist-led coalition in the India state of Kerala has swept the local elections that were held between Dec. 8 and 14. In results announced Wednesday, Dec.

The Cuban people, voting in a national plebiscite on Sept. 25, gave their approval to same-sex marriage and adoption rights for LGBTQ people. The measures are part of a new Family Code—a set of laws...

“The demonization of transgender people in the United States,” the Communist Party USA statement posted on Jan. 4 opens, “is today a focal point of the far right’s campaign for political and economic...

Lenin walks around the world. . . The sun sets like a scar, Between the darkness and the dawn, There rises a red star. —Langston Hughes The world is a better place because of V. I. Lenin. An outsta...

Raegan Davis is a graduate worker currently on strike at Temple University and a member of the Temple University Graduate Student Association (AFT Local 6290).

Since March 6, 2022, Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich have been in detention in Ukraine, reportedly experiencing regular beatings and torture. The brothers are leaders of the youth wing of the...

Chilean Communist Party candidate Daniel Jadue has emerged as the shock front-runner ahead of November’s presidential elections, with a number of polls predicting he could sweep to power.

Mainstream media, the U.S. government, and some otherwise well-intentioned progressives have latched onto the demonstrations in Cuban cities this past weekend as evidence of the Cuban government’s...

French communists have slammed the decision of President Emmanuel Macron to impose his highly unpopular bill that would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

At a minimum hundreds of Israelis and even more Palestinians have already been killed in violence now marked by constant barbaric air raids Israel has unleashed on the territory of Gaza, a small...

April this year marks the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society. This was convened by the infamous economist Friedrich von Hayek, who wanted to bring together a range of...

Read more coverage of the Communist Party USA's 32nd National Convention. CHICAGO – “The battle lines are clear. We’re fighting a fascist danger at home and a genocidal war abroad. And to defeat the...

Throughout his life, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke often and with vision about the nature of capitalism and the kind of changes needed to replace it. The following quotes reflect some of King’s...

Education is central to Cuba’s brand of socialism. The revolutionary government’s dedication to scientific knowledge and healthcare for all shows up now as Cubans cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The...

On the morning of September 11, 1973, Hawker Hunter jets bombed La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile. Hours later, Chile’s elected head of state, President Salvador Allende, was dead....

The world is fearful of possible war once again. This time the hotspot is Ukraine, with the accompanying crisis there and the fact that two of the adversaries, the U.S. and Russia, are the two...

RightOn September 8, members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s right-wing ruling political party, attacked three buildings in the Melarmath area of Agartala (Tripura).

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) has just filed for a union election at a second Amazon warehouse on Staten Island. News came on Feb. 2 after the National Labor Relations Board...

There’s an increasingly surreal air regarding the war scare over Ukraine. The original roles in the drama seem to be reversed. Back in December, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Oleksii Reznikov was...

My late uncle, LeRoy H. Wood, spent years in a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa., for what he did in Washington, D.C. Roy was convicted of “conspiring to teach the advocacy of the overthrow of the...

Donald Trump campaigned for president telling workers in the industrial Midwest that if he won no plant would ever shut down in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Minnesota.

Throughout his life, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke often and with vision about the nature of capitalism and the kind of changes needed to replace it. The following quotes reflect some of King’s...

Until late 2017, the words Uighur and Xinjiang were virtual unknowns in Western media. Suddenly, though, the mainstream corporate media began to host a steady, and increasing, flow of articles and...

Alexandra Kollontai was an outstanding figure in the Russian communist movement. As People’s Commissar for Social Affairs in Soviet Russia, Kollontai was the first woman in history to serve in a...

Read more coverage of the Communist Party USA’s 32nd National Convention. CHICAGO—The ongoing Israeli attack on Gaza may have prevented representatives of the Palestinian People’s Party from travel...

Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black youth, was shot twice on April 13 in Kansas City, Mo., by 85-year-old Andrew Lester after Yarl rang his doorbell. Yarl was released from the hospital on April 17....

Life expectancy in Swaziland, in southern Africa, is the world’s seventh lowest; its HIV/AIDS prevalence is the world’s highest, at 26%.  Unemployment is 41%, and wages for 80% of workers are less...

If approved by Cuban voters next month, the country’s new Family Code will stand as a social revolution, enshrining the right of all people to form a family regardless of sex or gender identity and...

“DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY… OBEY.” John Carpenter’s Halloween franchise has been celebrating box office success since mid-October, with the boogeyman Michael Myers scaring moviegoers once again four...

The things this Congress approved were so bad that workers were often better off when it didn’t do anything at all.

NEW YORK - The National Committee of the Communist Party, USA, that organization’s top leadership, launched a meeting this morning here in New York with a declaration that the nationwide party...

BERLIN—A committee of the German parliament responsible for preparing the election scheduled for Sept. 26 decided on Thursday not to allow the German Communist Party (DKP) to run for office.

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry every year prepares a report on Cuba’s experience with the U.S. economic blockade of the island, in force since 1962. On Oct. 22, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez presented...

The Communist Party of Chile’s new general secretary said on Sunday that she was looking forward to the challenges of the job during the difficult times facing her country.

Communists in both Sweden and Finland have come out in strong opposition to the announcements by the governments of their respective countries that they intend to apply for membership in the U.S.-led...

“How Communist Physics Teacher Flattens COVID-19 Curve in Southern India,” a headline in the online Science News, caught my eye. That was a contrast to the tragic number of pandemic deaths in the...

Former Cuban President Raúl Castro retired from his last major public office this weekend, standing down as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba at its Eighth Congress.

WASHINGTON—Civil rights activists, the African-American community, and progressive people of all stripes in Washington, D.C., spent Tuesday celebrating the city’s first-ever Paul Robeson Day.

Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday repeated calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and promised more humanitarian aid for Gaza. The remarks by Xi came as he opened a...

In the mid-1970s and early '80s, People’s World correspondent Marilyn Bechtel was editor of the bimonthly magazine, New World Review. She visited Afghanistan twice, in 1980 and 1981. The article...

As expected, the Supreme Court of the United States has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that legalized abortion across the nation nearly 50 years ago.

Tally another victory for the neo-fascist, anti-immigrant right wing in Europe. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party—the successor to the post-World War II Italian Social Movement—is...

After an 11-day war that killed more than 240 Palestinians and 12 Israelis, a fragile ceasefire between the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Islamist Hamas...

MEXICO CITY—“Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” U.S. authorities infamously asked those entering the country during the Cold War. Nowadays, the questions may have...

This article originally appeared in World Magazine, a People's World publication, on Feb. 28, 1985. It was reprinted on June 22, 2021, for the 80th anniversary of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union.

Brazil’s leader said on Saturday that the United States should stop “encouraging war” in Ukraine. President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva sent the message as he ended his landmark visit to China and...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—With climate change bringing soaring heat waves and catastrophic floods on a mass scale around the world, the Sacramento Valley formational club of the Communist Party USA decided...

TORONTO—As of press time, past the halfway point in Canada’s federal election campaign, the Conservative Party has surged to hold a slim, but definite lead over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s...

NEW YORK—The New York City Council has passed a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. political and economic blockade on Cuba. The resolution, passed unanimously, represents a step toward ending...

The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) has called for urgent investigations and an end to persecution following the “vile and cowardly murder” of party member José Urbina.

The following article is the first installment in a two-part series on U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam. Part one provides historical background to the issue; the next will cover the victims and...

Mainstream history books portray United States foreign policy in benevolent, glowing terms: American governments have always been dedicated to freedom, democracy and human rights, promoting these...

When I was a kid, every television station portrayed Native Americans as savages. Those who took their land using “guns, germs, and steel” were depicted as peace-loving bearers of civilization...

Editor’s Note: News just broke of Sinéad O'Connor’s death at the age of 56. People’s World is sharing this review of a recent documentary O’Connor’s life with our readers.

BALTIMORE—Holding signs that proclaimed “‘No-Strike’ Law is Tyranny,” and “We Support Railroad Workers’ Right to Paid Sick Leave,” over 30 people joined a downtown rally here at rush hour Wednesday...

On Aug. 16, Ukraine’s secret police force—the SBU, or Security Service of Ukraine—announced it had arrested Georgi Buiko, a veteran Communist Party member and leader of the Ukrainian Anti-Fascist...

 PROTECT THE RESULTS – FIND AN EVENT NEAR YOU The following is a guest editorial from the Communist Party USA. I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity. The people are awakening. In due time,...

It is almost impossible to find out any news of what is happening in Africa. It’s as though the continent is completely off the media’s radar, yet what is happening there will have consequences for...

As a non-religious, atheist Jew, I am not one to make many biblical references. However, reading the news that representatives of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion have been invited to tour Israel as part...

A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in late 1991. Two years earlier, in 1989, the socialist countries states of Eastern Europe gave way to a...

To extend a population’s life expectancy at birth (LEB) requires capabilities that are scarce in the United States. The U.S. LEB has fallen in the recent period, quite abruptly. Meanwhile, life...

This op-ed by long-time activist and radical historian Max Elbaum originally appeared at Organizing Upgrade. It was submitted to People’s World for consideration.

Police have been condemned for brutality after attacking a peaceful demonstration in the capital Berlin with pepper spray after communist groups gathered for the annual commemoration of Rosa Luxemb...

For many months, this newspaper has warned that Trump had set himself up as the leader of a mass fascist movement and that he would stop at nothing to maintain his grip on power. The insurrectionary...

NEW YORK—History has been made in Harlem. Overcoming many challenges on her path to victory—including smears and homophobic attacks by reactionary opponents—local community organizer and third-gene...