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The People's Weekly World (PWW) is the newspaper of the Communist Party USA, and is the direct descendant of the Daily Worker. The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ... The Daily Worker was a newspaper published by the Communist Party USA, a Comintern affiliated organization in New York, beginning in 1924. ...


Originally a daily called the People's World the paper was forced to scale back production and become a weekly in the late 1980s when it lost a mass subscription order from the Soviet Union due to the paper's criticism of Mikhael Gorbachev and perestroika. The paper is funded by its subscribers and supporters. 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: ; Pronunciation: mih-kha-ILL ser-GHE-ye-vich gor-bah-CHOFF) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ... Perestroika  listen? (Перестро́йка) is the Russian word (which passed into English) for the economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. ...


External link

  • The PWW web site

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