Opinion – Page 776 – People's World

Double-header for Labor Day

September 8, 2009 By PWW Editorial Board

On Labor Day, the working people of the U.S. and all their allies stand poised to win two historic battles — one that ends the national shame of 50 million people living without health insurance, and...

LETTERS, September 5, 2009

September 5, 2009 By Readers

Way ahead of tea-baggers We have to fight Funny story Role of the left

McCain wins White House!

September 3, 2009 By John Wojcik

A year ago on Labor Day, the nightmare scenario described in the headline above was still a real possibility. Labor and its allies went on to make sure that something quite different unfolded, but what if...

I was there – Peekskill 1949

September 3, 2009 By Erwin Marquit

On August 27, 1949, Paul Robeson was scheduled to sing at a concert sponsored by the music group People’s Artists at the Lakeland Acres Picnic Grounds, a few miles north of Peekskill, New York, about fifty...

Peekskill remembered

September 2, 2009 By Daniel Frontino Elash

The concert scheduled for Aug. 27, 1949, in Peekskill, N.Y., was supposed to be routine. Though it had been organized by People's Artists, a brand new spin-off organization of the People's Songs formation that had launched...