People's World
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox newspaper People's World,<ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the West Coast weekly paper People's Daily World in 1987.
HistoryEdit
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".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
People's Daily World was first launched in 1938.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news and Template:Cite news</ref> Its founder, Harrison George, started People's Daily World in San Francisco after he raised $33,000 from supporters in California.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite magazine</ref> The paper had 20,000 readers and cost 3 cents.<ref name=":1" /> The paper circulated throughout the West Coast.<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was completely funded through subscribers.<ref name=":2" />
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".<ref name=":0" /> During the 1950s, reporters from the paper were not allowed in the press galleries of various California governing bodies.<ref name=":0" /> Circulation was also down in the 1950s, with the paper only having a press run of 5,000 in 1955.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1957, the paper became a weekly publication.<ref name=":0" />
People's World also has a Spanish language section called Mundo Popular.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2009, People's World was re-launched as an online news publication where it continues to publish news on a daily basis.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
AboutEdit
On January 1, 2010, People's World became an online-only publication under a Creative Commons license.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Notable reporters and writersEdit
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- Woodie Guthrie, early columnist, writing 253 articles, most during 1939<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- Ollie Harrington, cartoonistTemplate:Citation needed
- Alice Greenfield McGrath, reporter<ref name=":0" />
- Ella Reeve Bloor, early columnist and reporter<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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