People's World
{{Short description|American Marxist national online news publication}}
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| motto = We take sides...yours!
| type = Daily newspaper
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| publisher = Longview Publishing Inc.
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| chiefeditor = John Wojcik
| maneditor = C. J. Atkins
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| newseditor = Chauncey K. Robinson
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| foundation = 1924 (as the Daily Worker)
1938 (as People's World)
| language = English, Spanish
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| headquarters = Chicago, IL
| publishing_country = United States
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People's World,{{Cite web|url=https://lccn.loc.gov/sn82016135|title=People's World|website=Library of Congress|access-date=January 21, 2019}} official successor to the Daily Worker, is a Marxist-Leninist and American leftist national daily online news publication. Founded by activists, socialists, communists, and those active in the labor movement in the early 1900s, the current publication is a result of a merger between the Daily World{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86058012/|title=Daily World |publisher=Library of Congress|date=January 22, 2019|access-date=April 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122005507/https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86058012/|archive-date=January 22, 2019}} and the West Coast weekly paper People's Daily World in 1987.
History
People's World traces its lineage to the Daily Worker newspaper, founded by communists, socialists, union members, and other activists in Chicago in 1924. On the front page of its first edition, the paper declared that "big business interests, bankers, merchant princes, landlords, and other profiteers" should fear the Daily Worker. It pledged to "raise the standards of struggle against the few who rob and plunder the many".{{Cite web|url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/about-the-peoples-world/|title=About People's World|date=August 25, 2009|website=People's World|language=en-US|access-date=April 10, 2019}}
People's Daily World was first launched in 1938.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-28-me-10213-story.html|title=Communist People's World Traces Its 46 Years: Paper's Devotees Mix Causes, Nostalgia|last=Becklund|first=Laurie|date=January 28, 1985|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=January 21, 2019|page=1|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}} and {{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-28-me-10213-story.html|title=Communist People's World Traces Its 46 Years: Paper's Devotees Mix Causes, Nostalgia|last=Becklund|first=Laurie|date=January 28, 1985|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=January 21, 2019|page=2|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}} Its founder, Harrison George, started People's Daily World in San Francisco after he raised $33,000 from supporters in California.{{Cite magazine|date=January 17, 1938|title=People's World|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=54814658&site=ehost-live|magazine=Time|volume=31|issue=3|pages=34|url-access=subscription |via=EBSCOhost}} The paper had 20,000 readers and cost 3 cents. The paper circulated throughout the West Coast.{{Cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8pz5fz6/|title=People's World Photograph Collection|website=Online Archive of California|access-date=January 21, 2019}} It was completely funded through subscribers.
After World War II, many of the editors of People's Daily World were convicted using the Smith Act of "conspiring to violently overthrow the U.S. government". During the 1950s, reporters from the paper were not allowed in the press galleries of various California governing bodies. Circulation was also down in the 1950s, with the paper only having a press run of 5,000 in 1955.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27483749/santa_maria_times/|title=It Occurs to Me|last=Laubengayer|first=Ed|date=February 15, 1955|work=Santa Maria Times|access-date=January 21, 2019|pages=6|via=Newspapers.com}} In 1957, the paper became a weekly publication.
People's World also has a Spanish language section called Mundo Popular.{{Cite web|url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article_category/mundo-popular/|title=Mundo Popular|last=Rey|first=Debora|website=People's World|language=en-US|access-date=April 10, 2019}}
In 2009, People's World was re-launched as an online news publication where it continues to publish news on a daily basis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpusa.org/article/welcome-to-the-new-people-s-world-online/|title=Welcome to the NEW People's World online!|date=October 3, 2009|website=Communist Party USA|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119162342/http://www.cpusa.org/article/welcome-to-the-new-people-s-world-online/|archive-date=January 19, 2019|access-date=January 22, 2019}}
About
On January 1, 2010, People's World became an online-only publication under a Creative Commons license.{{cite web |url=https://peoplesworld.org/legal-disclaimer-terms-of-service/ |url-status=live |title=Legal Disclaimer & Terms of Service |date=September 25, 2009 |publisher=People's World |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009092149/http://www.peoplesworld.org:80/legal/ |archive-date=9 October 2009 |access-date=9 July 2022}}
Notable reporters and writers
The journal has had several notable reporters and columnists:
- Woodie Guthrie, early columnist, writing 253 articles, most during 1939{{Cite journal|last=Blake|first=Matthew|date=Winter 2010|title=Woody Guthrie: A Dust Bowl Representative in the Communist Party Press|journal=Journalism History|volume=35|issue=4|pages=184–93|doi=10.1080/00947679.2010.12062803|s2cid=140773315}}
- Ollie Harrington, cartoonist{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
- Alice Greenfield McGrath, reporter
- Ella Reeve Bloor, early columnist and reporter{{Cite web |title=Bloor, Ella Reeve, 1862-1951 {{!}} Smith College Finding Aids |url=https://findingaids.smith.edu/agents/people/40338 |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=findingaids.smith.edu}}
References
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External links
- {{official website}} {{in lang|en|es}}
- [https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82016135/ People's World at the Library of Congress]
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