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Unions push for big turnout in Ohio

October 25, 2016 By Bruce Bostick

Donald Trump "continues to violate worker’s rights even as he runs for our nation’s highest office," said Leo Gerard.

Fact-free politics: Trump and the assault on truth

October 21, 2016 By Tony Pecinovsky

Our government is under assault and our politics are increasingly freed from the pesky constraints of facts.

More than tacos and tequila: The anti-imperialist history of Cinco de Mayo

May 5, 2016 By Michelle Zacarias

With all the fake mustaches and sombreros, it might be easy to forget Cinco de Mayo commemorates an 1862 Mexican victory over French invaders.

Today in women’s and labor history: Triangle sweatshop fire kills 146

March 25, 2015 By Special to People’s World

A total of 146 workers - almost all of them immigrant women - were killed in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Today in history: Kristallnacht, the Nazis’ ‘Night of Broken Glass’

November 9, 2012 By Barbara Russum

On 9-10 November 1938, a series of coordinated attacks against Jews took place throughout Germany and parts of Austria, carried out by the SS elite military forces, the Hitler Youth, and neighborhood gangsters.