Search Results
Baltimore prosecutor brings murder, manslaughter charges against six police
May 01, 2015The officers are charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, and assault.
Read more
July 14: This Week in Labor
July 13, 2007Supreme Court slaps workers The Supreme Court, determined to roll back living standards for workers and strengthen corporate power and control, issued another ruling that does just that. On June 26, the court abandoned a 96-year ban on manufacturers and retailers conspiring to set price floors for products. In an absurd 5-4 decision, the court said that “agreements” on minimum prices are legal “if they promote competition.” The ruling means...
Read more
People’s World goes union; editorial staff ratify first contract
April 04, 2018After nearly a century reporting on the labor movement, staff at the socialist publication have just completed their own first collective bargaining agreement.
Read more
Body count grows in Trump drive to kill off seniors
June 15, 2020New polls suggest senior voters are turning away from Trump in huge numbers.
Read more
You helped save People’s World: A thank you to our readers
April 30, 2021We write to express our heartfelt gratitude for your generous donations to our “100 Days for a Better World” Emergency Fund Drive.
Read more
People's World Google Hangout focuses on shutting down the Keystone XL
April 22, 2014Part of the lead up to this week's demonstrations in Washington's against the XL Pipeline was an April 15 Google Hangout sponsored by the People's World.
Read moreYou read it here first: predictions for 2009
January 09, 2009When analog TV broadcast ends Feb. 17 all hell will break lose. The biggest stimulus package in U.S. history ... Campaigns for a restoration of full employment ... The Internet will spew democracy far beyond capitalism’s control. A dramatic increase in the number of PWW readers, especially among union families. Something new will come along to replace Twitter.
Read more
Hundreds hear Kucinich at Illinois Healthcare Speak Out
August 06, 2009AURORA, Ill. - The peace movement jumped into the nationwide upsurge for health care reform in a big way last Sunday when two big antiwar organizations in Chicago's far western suburbs, Aurora Citizens for Peace and Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice, packed a community center to overflow capacity here in a Healthcare Speak Out. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who ran for his party's nomination in 2008, was the...
Read more
Latino voters key to Western states
September 26, 2008With the Nov. 4 presidential election just weeks away, a monumental battle is heating up in a few crucial swing states, as some 9 million Latino voters prepare to cast ballots which could be the deciding factor for an Obama win. “Well over 60 percent of Latino voters are supporting Obama — closer to 66 percent now,” Jose Laluz, chairperson of Latinos for Obama, told the World last month. Laluz,...
Read more
THIS WEEK IN LABOR
March 30, 2007Union love Kenneth Hill, a member of the Boilermakers Local 693, got married to Sonja McGruffin on the picket line outside the main gate of Northrop Grumman’s Ingalls shipyard, March 23, in Pascagoula, Miss. The wedding party and guest list was made up of fellow strikers, Black and white, who watched as Kenneth and Sonja exchanged vows. Hill works as a welder at the shipyard. The couple wanted to get...
Read more