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Debate heats up over U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan

January 10, 2013 By Marilyn Bechtel

Debate is intensifying about the numbers of U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after the projected withdrawal of most by the end of 2014.

Seeing Red: Huffington Post debates Communist influence in U.S.

January 10, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Is communism still relevant to American politics?

Letter Carriers slam new federal report on postal service

January 10, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

A new federal report on the financial ills of the U.S. Postal Service is a reiteration of previous justifications for huge agency prepayments of future retirees' health care costs.

Gun control action will rely on grassroots organizing

January 10, 2013 By Susan Webb

From the White House to anti-violence groups, it's widely agreed that grassroots mobilizing holds the key.

Today in Labor History: Greed and the Pemberton Mill disaster

January 10, 2013 By Special to People’s World

In the worst industrial disaster in Mass. state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapsed on January 10, 1860, trapping 900 workers, most of them recent immigrants, many women and children