poetry
Poetry Feature: “Taraana 1” by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911—1984) was a communist, a staunch internationalist, and one of the most celebrated poets of the Urdu language.
Poetry Feature: “We Proletarians” by Shimon Nepom
Shimon Nepom (1882—1939) was a member of the “Proletarian Poets,” a Toronto-based communist Yiddish poetry group. Before his death, he published multiple volumes of his writings, much of which touched on his autobiographical experience as a Jewish worker and his socialist aspirations.