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Ohio labor rallies for Obama

September 18, 2012 By Rick Nagin

At the Ohio State AFL-CIO Convention delegates heard a continuous cascade of powerful appeals to fully mobilize labor behind the President in the all-important November election.

Parents and students back Chicago teachers

September 18, 2012 By John Bachtell

Hundreds of parents and students demonstrated their solidarity with striking Chicago teachers in rallies across the city Sept.18.

Berlin: A conference of anti-fascists and the story of a ring

September 18, 2012 By Victor Grossman

A small but moving episode marked the regular annual meeting of the German organization Fighters and Friends of the Spanish Republic 1936-1939.

On the 202nd anniversary of Mexican independence

September 18, 2012 By Emile Schepers

On Sept.16, Mexico celebrated its two hundred and second independence day. Is independence slipping through the Mexican people's fingers?

Today in Labor History: 1934 textile workers strike begins

September 18, 2012 By Special to People’s World

The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in U.S. labor history at the time, involving as many as 500,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S.Southern states.