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{{Short description|American Marxist national online news publication}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2021}}
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| name                 = People's World
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| motto                = We take sides...yours!
| type                 = [[Daily newspaper]]
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| publisher            = Longview Publishing Inc.
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| chief_editor         = John Wojcik
| managing_editor      = C. J. Atkins
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| news_editor          = Chauncey K. Robinson
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| founded              = 1924 (as the ''Daily Worker'')<br>1938 (as ''People's World'')
| language             = English, Spanish
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| headquarters         = Chicago, IL
| publishing_country   = United States
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| readership           = 2,700,000 <ref>{{cite web |last1=Harrison |first1=Cameron |title=CPUSA calls on members to close the gap on People's World fund drive |url=https://peoplesworld.org/article/cpusa-calls-on-members-to-close-the-gap-on-peoples-world-fund-drive/ |website=People's World |publisher=Long View Publishing Co |access-date=2 October 2025}}</ref>
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'''''People's World''''',<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://lccn.loc.gov/sn82016135|title=People's World|website=Library of Congress|access-date=January 21, 2019}}</ref> official successor to the ''[[Daily Worker]]'', is a [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]], [[Socialism|socialist]], and [[Marxism–Leninism|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''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86058012/|title=Daily World |publisher=Library of Congress|date=January 22, 2019|access-date=April 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122005507/https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86058012/|archive-date=January 22, 2019}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/about-the-peoples-world/|title=About People's World|date=August 25, 2009|website=People's World|language=en-US|access-date=April 10, 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Individuals - George, Harrison (editor of People's World). undated Edit.png|thumb|left|[[Harrison George]], the paper's inaugural editor-in-chief, {{circa}} 1937]]

''People's Daily World'' was first launched in 1938.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-28-me-10213-story.html|title=Communist People's World Traces Its 46 Years: Paper's Devotees Mix Causes, Nostalgia|last=Becklund|first=Laurie|date=January 28, 1985|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=January 21, 2019|page=1|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}} and {{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-28-me-10213-story.html|title=Communist People's World Traces Its 46 Years: Paper's Devotees Mix Causes, Nostalgia|last=Becklund|first=Laurie|date=January 28, 1985|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=January 21, 2019|page=2|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</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">{{Cite magazine|date=January 17, 1938|title=People's World|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=54814658&site=ehost-live|magazine=Time|volume=31|issue=3|pages=34|url-access=subscription |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref> The paper had 20,000 readers and cost 3 cents.<ref name=":1" /> The paper circulated throughout the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8pz5fz6/|title=People's World Photograph Collection|website=Online Archive of California|access-date=January 21, 2019}}</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>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27483749/santa_maria_times/|title=It Occurs to Me|last=Laubengayer|first=Ed|date=February 15, 1955|work=Santa Maria Times|access-date=January 21, 2019|pages=6|via=Newspapers.com}}</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>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article_category/mundo-popular/|title=Mundo Popular|last=Rey|first=Debora|website=People's World|language=en-US|access-date=April 10, 2019}}</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>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpusa.org/article/welcome-to-the-new-people-s-world-online/|title=Welcome to the NEW People's World online!|date=October 3, 2009|website=Communist Party USA|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119162342/http://www.cpusa.org/article/welcome-to-the-new-people-s-world-online/|archive-date=January 19, 2019|access-date=January 22, 2019}}</ref>

''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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Download Print Edition |url=https://peoplesworld.org/download-print-edition/ |website=People's World |publisher=Longview Publishing Inc. |access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref> ''People's World'' also produces multiple state and local print editions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Friends of People's World Fundraising Kit |url=https://pwresourcepage.my.canva.site/public-pw-sustainer-fundraising-kit |website=People's World |publisher=Longview Publishing Inc. |access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref>

== About ==

On January 1, 2010, ''People's World'' became an online-only publication under a [[Creative Commons]] license.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://peoplesworld.org/legal-disclaimer-terms-of-service/ |url-status=live |title=Legal Disclaimer & Terms of Service |date=September 25, 2009 |publisher=People's World |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009092149/http://www.peoplesworld.org/legal/ |archive-date=October 9, 2009 |access-date=9 July 2022 }}</ref>

[[File:San Francisco Newspapers After Pearl Harbor Attack.jpg|thumb|right|''People's World'' on the newsstands after Pearl Harbor]]

== Notable reporters and writers ==

{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable Reporters, Columnists, & Contributors <ref name=":0" />
!Name
!Title
!Notes
|-
|[[Woody Guthrie|Woodie Guthrie]] <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Blake|first=Matthew|date=Winter 2010|title=Woody Guthrie: A Dust Bowl Representative in the Communist Party Press|journal=Journalism History|volume=35|issue=4|pages=184–93|doi=10.1080/00947679.2010.12062803|s2cid=140773315}}</ref>
|singer & songwriter
|early columnist, writing 253 articles, most during 1939
|-
|[[Ollie Harrington]]{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
|cartoonist
|
|-
|[[Alice McGrath|Alice Greenfield McGrath]] <ref name=":0" />
|reporter
|
|-
|[[Ella Reeve Bloor]] <ref>{{Cite web |title=Bloor, Ella Reeve, 1862-1951 {{!}} Smith College Finding Aids |url=https://findingaids.smith.edu/agents/people/40338 |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=findingaids.smith.edu}}</ref>
|reporter
|early columnist
|-
|[[Michael Parenti]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Parenti |first1=Michael |title=Hurricane Katrina anniversary: How the free market killed New Orleans |url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/hurricane-katrina-anniversary-how-the-free-market-killed-new-orleans/ |website=People's World |publisher=Longview Publishing Inc.| access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref>
|author & lecturer
|
|-
|[[Angela Davis]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Davis |first1=Angela |title=Angela Davis praises CPUSA for its history “of militant struggle” |url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/angela-davis-praises-cpusa-for-its-history-of-militant-struggle/ |website=People's World |publisher=Longview Publishing Inc. |access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref>
|activist, philosopher, academic, & author
|
|-
|[[Victor Grossman]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grossman |first1=Victor |title=Victor Grossman |url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/victor-grossman-3/ |website=People's World |publisher=Longview Publishing Inc. |access-date=11 November 2025}}</ref>
|publicist & author
|more well known for his defection from the U.S. Army to the GDR in 1952
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website}} {{in lang|en|es}}
*[https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82016135/ ''People's World'' at the Library of Congress]

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