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Today in labor history: San Francisco General Strike

July 16, 2014 By Special to People’s World

For the first time in American labor history, craft jealousies were broken down as skilled and unskilled personnel cooperated on an equal basis, and the rank-and-file was in full control of a major strike.

Moral Monday leader a hit at AFT convention

July 16, 2014 By Rossana Cambron

Teachers heard the iconic leader of the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina characterize them as part of a movement fighting for the very soul of the nation.

Elizabeth Warren stumps for Tennant in West Virginia

July 15, 2014 By John Case

Ms. Tennant is in a tight race with outgoing Republican Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito for the seat. The race could be a decisive one in this year's national battle for control of the U.S. Senate.

Birds feeling the sting of bee-killing pesticides

July 15, 2014 By Blake Skylar

There's a lot of buzz around a recent study showing the toxic chemicals we use have a ripple effect farther up the food chain, causing birds to rapidly decline in number.

Jose Antonio Vargas, immigrant rights leader, arrested by border patrol

July 15, 2014 By Special to People’s World

United We Dream Minority Affairs Council said Vargas was in Texas this past weekend in solidarity with unaccompanied children who cross the Texas border fleeing for their lives.