Ian Rocksborough-Smith
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Robert Zecker is a professor of history at Saint Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he teaches courses in race, immigration, social movements, and U.S. history. His research includes immigration, radicalism, and the popular culture of immigrants on the left. He is the author of many articles in journals such as the Journal of American Ethnic History, The Journal of Transnational American Studies, and American Communist History. He is also author of five books, most recently “A Road to Peace and Freedom”: The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954 (Temple University Press) and has a chapter, “'Spotlight on Jim Crow': Radical Immigrant Papers Cover Race and Civil Rights,” in Immigration and Exile: The Foreign-Language Press in the U.K. and U.S. (Bloomsbury). He is currently writing a history of the Communist Party’s Workers’ Schools, “Training for the Class Struggle.” Before entering the academic racket, Bob was an ink-stained wretch foisting journalism on an unsuspecting public in his native New Jersey.
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Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker on their new book, From Popular Front to Cold War

From Popular Front to Cold War (2026).Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker about their recent edited volume, From Popular Front

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“A People’s University”: Communist Workers’ Schools, 1923-1956

A much-overlooked part of the rise of the Communist Party as the leading Left organization in the mid twentieth century is that it

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