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DC unions back streetcar workers fired for organizing

July 13, 2015 By Larry Rubin

"The fired streetcar workers are heroes and they stood up for the right of workers to organize a union; they stood up for the dignity of workers."

South African Communists reassess country’s national democratic revolution

July 13, 2015 By Mark Waller

The South African Communist Party's Special National Congress took stock of a range of problems besetting South Africa's young democracy.

Canada’s prime minister jams anti-union law through Parliament

July 13, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

"Unions are far more democratic, transparent, and accountable to their members than this prime minister and his government are to taxpayers."

Apache Stronghold caravan seeks to save sacred site from mining giant

July 10, 2015 By Albert Bender

They say that Oak Flat will be "damaged" by the mine. "Damaged" is an understatement. A two mile wide, 1,000 foot deep crater will result from the mining.

Today in African-American history: Mary McLeod Bethune born in 1875

July 10, 2015 By Special to People’s World

She organized African American women in the South to vote despite the Jim Crow poll tax and other racist restrictions.