We Charge Genocide: How the Gaza ceasefire movement is learning from the black freedom struggle Demand for a 1951 book about how black Americans used the legal definition of genocide to fight the US government during the civil rights movement is soaring due to its parallels with the plight of the Palestinians, writes CJ ATKINS
Friday 25th Aug 2023 Offices of French communist newspaper l’Humanite ransacked by burglars, triggering emergency appeal Valuable IT equipment has been stolen from the historic left-wing publication by thieves disguised as workers, writes CJ ATKINS
Sunday 16th Oct 2022 US imperialism targets China in Biden’s new national security strategy Relegating Russia to second place, US imperialism is gearing up for years — potentially decades — of confrontation with China as an existential threat economically, politically and militarily in a shocking declaration of hostilities, reports CJ ATKINS
Monday 19th Sep 2022 Warning shots fired by the left CJ ATKINS reports on the growing left-wing opposition to the German government's inept policies that risk further impoverishment of its people
Wednesday 11th Aug 2021 Global warming consequences are now unavoidable A new IPCC report released this week says it’s already too late to turn back the climate damage that’s already been inflicted – and it’s going to get worse, says CJ ATKINS
Tuesday 03rd Nov 2020 The election according to the Communist Party USA CJ ATKINS, managing editor of People’s World and CPUSA national board member, discusses why communists consider support for the anti-Trump coalition a ‘vote against fascism,’ the likely changes ahead in China and Iran and what Bernie Sanders's 'socialist moment' has meant for the US left
Wednesday 02nd Sep 2020 Republicans’ rabid anti-communism is a sign of their political weakness Trump and his supporters are cranking up the McCarthyite rhetoric in a desperate bid to make sure not even one ‘Maga’ loyalist stays home on election day, says CJ ATKINS
Sunday 31st May 2020 ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts’: Trump revives segregationist war cry Whether he did so subconsciously, by quoting a segregationist police chief who opposed the 1960s civil rights movement, Trump has picked up the mantle of US white supremacism once again, writes CJ ATKINS
Friday 13th Mar 2020 Bernie shouldn't quit yet Be under no illusions, the socialist senator faces an uphill battle to win the Democratic Party nomination. But it's still doable, writes CJ ATKINS
Monday 02nd Mar 2020 Don’t let the socialist moment pass us by CJ ATKINS asks whether US citizens’ curiosity about the concept of socialism and what it could mean for the country will out live Bernie Sanders’s campaign
Thursday 13th Feb 2020 What is life like inside the coronavirus quarantine zone? CJ ATKINS talks to Chinese national, Lupin, about how the containment measures imposed on his hometown of Wuhan have affected the community there