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GOP out to sabotage climate talks in Paris

December 9, 2015 By Juan Lopez

This is an effort to undermine the Obama administration's credibility and to sabotage COP 21's potential for success in Paris.

Burkina Faso: Coup general faces prosecution in Sankara death

December 9, 2015 By Emile Schepers

Charges have finally been filed in the killing 28 years ago of Burkina Faso's former president, Thomas Sankara.

Today in labor history: The American Federation of Labor is founded

December 8, 2015 By Special to People’s World

The original constituent craft unions of the AFL were disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association.

Ultra-right makes worrisome advances in French regional elections

December 8, 2015 By Emile Schepers

In France, as in other European countries, the most common interpretation of the right's surge is hostility toward immigrants, refugees and foreigners in general.

Women’s health advocates say attacks on them are terrorism too

December 8, 2015 By Emily Likins

Ultra-right Christians have been practicing terrorism against providers and consumers of women's health services for years, injuring and even killing patients and medical personnel.