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After first look at full TPP text, union leaders give pact thumbs down

November 6, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Union leaders gave the 12-nation treaty an initial thumbs down as being too pro-corporate and not guaranteeing workers' rights.

Many right-wingers defeated at the polls this year

November 6, 2015 By Larry Rubin

The American people as a whole can take hope from the fact that right wingers across the U.S. are facing stronger and stronger challenges - many were defeated Tuesday.

Today in history: Saudi women protest by driving cars

November 6, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Forty-seven women in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, drove their cars in a 14-car convoy to protest the driving ban.

Campaign exposes widespread abuses of poultry industry workers

November 5, 2015 By PAI And Barb Kucera

Poultry workers in the United States suffer high rates of injury, earn poverty level wages and work in a climate of fear.

Lack of media attention to Holtzclaw trial: Do black women matter?

November 5, 2015 By Chauncey K. Robinson

The trial of the former Oklahoma City police officer charged with sexually assaulting and raping 13 black women, began this Monday.