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Today in labor history: first legal protest by slaves in New York

February 11, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On this date in 1644 the first "legal" protest by Africans in America occurred.

Sudan: Colonialism’s dead hand

February 11, 2014 By Conn Hallinan

Hopefully the recent ceasefire agreement between the warring parties in South Sudan will halt that country's downward spiral into civil war.

IBEW member hits the ice in Sochi

February 11, 2014 By IBEW

Journeyman electrician Ekaterina Pashkevitch is taking to the ice in Sochi, Russia, this week, playing center for the Russian women's Olympic hockey team.

My patients suffer because GOP rejects Medicaid expansion

February 11, 2014 By Rachel Cramsey

While it is common knowledge that Missouri did not participate in Medicaid expansion in 2013, it is less widely known how this decision impacts thousands of poor and working class Missourians.

Postal workers warn public about outsourcing deal with Staples

February 11, 2014 By Ben Markeson

"Outsourcing an essential public service to a for-profit corporation staffed with clerks making less than a livable wage and no accountability to the American public is completely irrational."