I pick up the PWW every week in from of the TL YMCA in SF. Appreciate the labor reportage and on occasion it's cultural coverage, original or from AP like the story on Steve Earle can be o.k. though there is still a whiff of the Socialist Realism of the past. Though an excellent interview a few months ago with a comic artist wherein he said that too many leftists were dour, plodding souls and that too many left magazines and newspapers were unattractive in their layouts.
When I wanted to send the interview to the list, the search button did not work, and the pg. I had found in the past archiving all PWW stories I could not find again.
Lastly, why did the CommunistParty at yahoogroups.com get folded after a year or so? Through it I had some nice exchanges offlist with Judith LeBlanc of The Party started by an annotated bibliography of a few dozen books on Leninism, and the history of the USSR from various friendly and critical left traditions. Judith has a leadership role in the CPUSA. I was sad that she was unaware of many texts found in every university library in the HX-Marxism section,and not more than a few public libraries I've haunted for decades, and that were reviewed in such as Monthly Review and Socialist Review.
And, overdue for the Party to do a radical rethink of Political Affairs, the theoretical monthly. But, that would have to happen coincident on a ideological renovation which was aborted in '56-'57 with the defeat of the John Gates faction, in '68 with the Parties support of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and Gus Hall's rigid anti-Eurocommunist line of the 70's. -- Michael Pugliese
"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening to
each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding that
we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and shouted
at each other, as if we were in a madhouse." -Tolstoy