Deirdre Griswold

Deirdre.Griswold@workers.org

Russian Revolution Nov. 7, 1917 − impact on 20th century

Editor note to readers: November 7 is the anniversary of the first revolution that established working-class power in an entire…

November 7, 2024

1989: Tiananmen Square ‘massacre’ was a myth

The article below was first published June 29, 2011, following a release from WikiLeaks confirming that U.S. media claims of…

June 3, 2022

Koreans tell it like it is

From 1950 to 1953, the U.S. government waged a horrendous war against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the northern…

July 8, 2021

How U.S. destroyed progressive secular forces in Afghanistan

First published in Workers World in October 1996, and then republished on Sept. 27, 2001, just before the U.S. invasion…

July 5, 2021

Good news from China

As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage many countries, including the United States, China has announced that it will make…

May 10, 2021

60 years ago: The invasion that failed

Sixty years ago — on April 17, 1961 — some 1,400 heavily armed right-wing exiles waded ashore at Cuba’s aptly…

April 26, 2021

Remembrances of a warehouse order picker

Think 1956. That’s 65 years ago — the year this writer dropped out of college and took a full-time job…

March 9, 2021

Electric cars and China: Another great leap forward

China is now the world’s biggest market for automobiles, accounting for a third of global car sales. “It is bigger…

February 1, 2021

A question about the stock market

A reader recently asked us why the stock market is still going up when the economy is being battered by…

January 28, 2021

Capitalists profit off pandemic

Many countries around the world have successfully contained the coronavirus. Most notable is China, the most populous nation and the…

November 19, 2020