Politics – Page 839 – People's World

“Massive” May Day strike begins to take shape

March 21, 2017 By Patrick J. Foote

It looks like the first May Day of the Trump era could be a record-breaker.

Scholars chart the political economy of education privatization

March 20, 2017 By John McCollow

Around the world, major efforts are underway to turn public education into a product for sale on the market. New scholarship examines the economics and ideology behind it all.

Labor leaders grapple with how to halt the Trump agenda

March 20, 2017 By John Wojcik

"It was a mistake for the Democrats to not nominate Bernie Sanders, who could bring together not just the left, but the center and even some on the right."

GOP health care proposal would have huge impact in California

March 17, 2017 By Marilyn Bechtel

"This GOP proposal viciously cuts and caps Medicaid, when Trump said many times he would not cut this crucial program."

Trump’s budget robs from the poor, gives to the rich

March 17, 2017 By Larry Rubin

Every dollar taken from programs to help low-income people “will go to unaccountable defense contractors.”