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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Longview Publishing Inc. |
| Editor-in-chief | John Wojcik |
| Managing editor | C. J. Atkins |
| News editor | Chauncey K. Robinson |
| Founded | 1924 (as theDaily Worker) 1938 (asPeople's World) |
| Language | English, Spanish |
| Headquarters | Chicago, IL |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www |
People's World,[1] official successor to theDaily Worker, is aMarxist-Leninist andAmerican 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 theDaily World[2] and the West Coast weekly paperPeople's Daily World in 1987.
People's World traces its lineage to theDaily 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".[3]
The current publication is a result of a merger between theDaily World (formerly known as theDaily Worker) and the West Coast weekly paperPeople's Daily World.
TheDaily Worker was a national newspaper first published in 1924. It became known as theDaily World in 1968.
People's Daily World was first launched in 1938.[4] Its founder,Harrison George, startedPeople's Daily World inSan Francisco after he raised $33,000 from supporters inCalifornia.[5] The paper had 20,000 readers and cost 3 cents.[5] The paper circulated throughout theWest Coast.[6] It was completely funded throughsubscribers.[6]
AfterWorld War II, many of the editors ofPeople's Daily World were convicted using theSmith Act of "conspiring to violently overthrow the U.S. government".[4] During the 1950s, reporters from the paper were not allowed in the press galleries of various California governing bodies.[4] Circulation was also down in the 1950s, with the paper only having a press run of 5,000 in 1955.[7] In 1957, the paper became a weekly publication.[4]
In 1986, theDaily World merged withPeople's Daily World.
Its publisher is Long View Publishing Company. The online newspaper is a member of theInternational Labor Communications Association and is indexed in theAlternative Press Index. Its staff belong to theNewsGuild-CWA labor union, and by extensionAFL–CIO.
People's World also has a Spanish language section called Mundo Popular.[8]
In 2009,People's World was re-launched as an online news publication where it continues to publish news on a daily basis.[9]
People's World is funded by its supporters and published by a small staff, and a network of volunteers. The newspaper is a member of theInternational Labor Communications Association.
On January 1, 2010,People's World became an online-only publication under aCreative Commons license.[10]
The journal has had several notable reporters and columnists:[4]
(in English and Spanish)