Opinion – Page 641 – People's World

“Why Marx Was Right”: lively challenge to 10 myths

December 16, 2011 By Frederick Barr

Eagleton's bright, witty book marches forward into the usual stumbling blocks erected over the decades in the environment of popular ideology and topples them.

Mr. Gingrich: Are there no Palestinians?

December 16, 2011 By Sotere Torregian

"There are no Palestinians. There are Arabs who inhabit the State of Israel." These are your words, Mr. Gingrich.

Michigan warning: Republican extremism goes too far

December 16, 2011 By John Rummel

The attack on workers rights and democracy in Michigan is a warning for the nation.

Leo Fichtenbaum, lifelong drum major for justice, dies

December 15, 2011 By Special to People’s World

As a teenager and a member of the Young Communist League, he was active in the struggle to free the Scottsboro Boys and helped to organize the fur workers.

2011: People Said NO to union busting, greed and war

December 15, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

2011 will be remembered as the year workers occupied capitals to defend union rights and the jobs of millions of public workers.