People's World, official successor to the Daily Worker, is a progressive, socialist, and Marxist-Leninist 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, and the West Coast weekly paper People's Daily World in 1987.

History

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".

thumb|left|[[Harrison George, the paper's inaugural editor-in-chief, 1937]]

People's Daily World was first launched in 1938. Its founder, Harrison George, started People's Daily World in San Francisco after he raised $33,000 from supporters in California. The paper had 20,000 readers and cost 3 cents. It was completely funded through subscribers. In 1957, the paper became a weekly publication.

In 2009, People's World was re-launched as an online news publication where it continues to publish news on a daily basis.

People's World continues a limited weekly print edition as of 2025. These print editions are sent to individuals held in prison systems in 14 different states across the United States. People's World also produces multiple state and local print editions.

About

On January 1, 2010, People's World became an online-only publication under a Creative Commons license.

thumb|right|People's World on the newsstands after Pearl Harbor

Notable reporters and writers

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|+Notable reporters, columnists, and contributors

|Singer and songwriter

|Early columnist, writing 253 articles, most during 1939

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|Ollie Harrington

|Cartoonist

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|Alice Greenfield McGrath

|Reporter

|Early columnist

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|Michael Parenti

|Author and lecturer

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|Angela Davis

|Activist, philosopher, academic, and author

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|Victor Grossman

|Publicist and author

|More well known for his defection from the U.S. Army to the GDR in 1952

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References

  • People's World at the Library of Congress