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"Big Bill" Haywood passed on May 18, 1928. A giant of US labor, we're happy to offer his autobiography at 50% off - 1 week only! @AFLCIO @labornotes @iww @communistsusa @PeoplesWorld @DemSocialists @MLToday @monthly_review @ClaudiaJonesEdu @ny_ycl @CunySLU https://t.co/d21S8bxHFX

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@azmadu @tonyjballas Unfortunately, we don't control shipping rates. UPS is the union carrier. We wish there was a different way. In solidarity.

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Born May 5, 1818, Karl Marx remains the most influential thinker in history. To celebrate, we're offering these titles at 50% - 75% off: https://t.co/8zJEiPIg9Q
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Celebrate #MAYDAY! #STRIKE! Workers of the world, unite!

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What a wonderful tribute to Meridel Le Sueur: https://t.co/6Xm7AK65j2 Grab a copy of "Salute to Spring" here: https://t.co/Zhva5ZCn2W @communistsusa @PeoplesWorld @DemSocialists @iww @jacobin @MLToday

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In 1950, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened a file on a woman in the Midwest. She wasn’t a spy. She was a blacklisted writer who documented how American women starved. The government treated her notebooks like a threat. Publishers dropped her. Bookstores erased her name.

Her name was Meridel Le Sueur.

The file grew—pages of surveillance, intercepted mail, neighbor interviews. A record built around a woman holding a pencil.

During the Great Depression in Minneapolis, the men stood in breadlines. The women disappeared into quiet rooms, hiding hunger behind closed doors.

Le Sueur went to them.

She sat in waiting rooms. Listened. Took notes. No camera. Just a notebook.

She recorded the cost of survival—bread, rent, meals—and the sound of a voice after days without food. She wrote about mothers keeping children quiet in freezing apartments.

In 1932, she published Women on the Breadlines.

No politics. No agenda. Just hunger.

People read it. Workers shared it. Unions asked for more.

She kept writing—strikes, evictions, protests. In 1934, during the Minneapolis Teamsters strike, she watched police fire into crowds. Others called it chaos. She wrote names. Temperatures. Details. Truth.

That truth became dangerous.

By the 1950s, during the McCarthy era, empathy itself was suspect. The House Un-American Activities Committee blurred the line between dissent and disloyalty.

Le Sueur was labeled subversive.

Agents visited her landlords. Questioned neighbors. Monitored her mail. Sat outside her home.

Editors stopped replying. Manuscripts came back unopened.

She wasn’t imprisoned.

She was erased.

She took jobs to survive—waitressing, cleaning, teaching. The FBI followed her there too. Employers let her go.

She needed three dollars once to keep the heat on. A neighbor refused. The agents had already warned them.

Still, she wrote.

Under other names, she published children’s books—stories of Abraham Lincoln’s mother, of Johnny Appleseed. Her real voice stayed hidden.

Manuscripts piled up. Rejected. Returned. Stored in boxes.

Years passed.

The world forgot her.

She did not stop writing.

In the 1970s, historians rediscovered her work. Found her in her seventies, surrounded by unpublished pages.

Her writing returned. Universities invited her. Her FBI file—over 100 pages—was finally declassified.

She died in 1996.

They took her name off the books.

They never stopped her from writing them.

Meridel Le Sueur: the woman who refused to stop.

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#MayDay is 3 days away! So, we're offering Philip S. Foner's history of May Day for $5: https://t.co/vr6LcmZXP6 Get 1. Get 10. Give it to friends, co-workers, and comrades! @communistsusa @PeoplesWorld @DemSocialists @iww @jacobin @ny_ycl @ClaudiaJonesEdu @MLToday @labornotes

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Antonio Gramsci passed April 27, 1937. Get "The Modern Prince" & "The Prison Notebooks" 40% off during our Spring sale! Only a few days left. Only at https://t.co/Fh8eGOYr0r @communistsusa @PeoplesWorld @DemSocialists @iww @jacobin @MLToday @PeoplesForumNYC @ClaudiaJonesEdu

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If you're in the area, we hope you'll check out this important discussion today. @communistsusa @PeoplesWorld @ny_ycl @dsa_ny @monthly_review @ClaudiaJonesEdu @jacobin @TamimentLibrary Don't forget IP's Spring sale. Only at https://t.co/Fh8eGOYr0r

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Socialist Week continues today at John Jay!
In the afternoon we first have an activity with @monthly_review @IntPubNYC and Revolutionary Books:

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Mark Twain passed April 21, 1910. We're proud to publish his "King Leopold's Soliloquy" about the horrors of colonialism: https://t.co/anfJ8I4E6Z Only $5. @communistsusa @PeoplesWorld @blkagendareport @AAIHS @AHAhistorians @PeoplesForumNYC @ny_ycl @ClaudiaJonesEdu @CAARPRNow

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Tonight - @PeoplesWorld May Day Town Hall. Register here: https://t.co/SFgqwoscgS
IP's "Square UP" is a great companion: https://t.co/tqYdAJjias @labornotes @AFLCIO @WorkingAmerica @CLUWNational @cbtu_stl @CWAUnion @SBWorkersUnited @amazonlabor @jwjnational #MayDay #Strike

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Pre-order! As the Trump admin attempts to white wash history, we're proud to print "We, The Other People: Alternative Declarations of Independence" https://t.co/EJOtSmIB45 @communistsusa @PeoplesWorld @AHAhistorians @The_OAH @AAIHS @DemSocialists @PeoplesForumNYC @ny_ycl @MLToday