News – Page 2861 – People's World

Subversion contractors an obstacle to U.S.-Cuba ties

December 11, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The focus so far has been on pushing Obama toward changes he is legally authorized to carry out. The missing link, however, may be popular pressure put on Congress.

Repression fails to stem mass outrage in Mexico

December 11, 2014 By Tim Pelzer

Police repression has failed to stop a wave of protests sweeping Mexico demanding the return of 43 kidnapped students in the state of Guerrero.

Buried in the back garden: families priced out of decent burials

December 10, 2014 By Luke James

UK families have been forced to bury loved ones in their back gardens amid an upsurge in "paupers' funerals" caused by rising costs and grant cuts.

Union leaders and immigrants’ rights advocates: new trade pacts disastrous

December 10, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Implementation of new "free trade" pacts, and specifically the TPP between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations, could lead to mass unemployment in Latin America.

Human Rights Day spurs Iranians’ call to end repression

December 10, 2014 By Committee for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights

Each year, on Dec. 10 the world remembers the day in 1948 when all nations came together in Paris to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.