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Momentum grows for ending the filibuster

November 12, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

The newly elected, slightly more Democratic U.S. Senate must tackle comprehensive filibuster reform or it will grind to a dead halt again.

CT working families defeat Linda’s lies

November 12, 2012 By Joelle Fishman

Connecticut voters smacked down tea party Republican Linda McMahon on Election Day and chose Rep. Chris Murphy to be their new U.S. Senator.

Today in labor history: Ellis Island closed

November 12, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1924 Ellis Island closed as immigration entry point. After 1924 the famous island in Jersey City instead served as a detention and deportation center until 1954. After World War 2 Germans soldiers...

Clergy: “Reject grand bargain, tax the rich”

November 12, 2012 By John Bachtell

Federal budget cuts will devastate social programs, "plunge communities into ruin and destruction, and cost lives."

Today in history: Kristallnacht, the Nazis’ ‘Night of Broken Glass’

November 9, 2012 By Barbara Russum

On 9-10 November 1938, a series of coordinated attacks against Jews took place throughout Germany and parts of Austria, carried out by the SS elite military forces, the Hitler Youth, and neighborhood gangsters.