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UK activists target Shell’s Arctic agenda

July 17, 2012 By Blake Skylar

Activists with Greenpeace shut down 74 Shell gas stations July 16, in London and Edinburgh, to protest the oil corporation's plans to drill into the sensitive Arctic ecosystem for oil.

Today in labor history: Steel Workers founded in Pittsburgh

July 17, 2012 By Special to People’s World

Within a year of its inception, over 125,000 people had joined the union.

The real issue: Romney’s profits from job-killing

July 16, 2012 By Marc Brodine

Romney is happy to profit from vulture capitalism, but he certainly doesn't want any voter to think he himself was a vulture.

Documenting the disaster

July 16, 2012 By Joseph Zimmermann

"Hard Times: Lost on Long Island" is an examination of endless heartbreak and the clinging to the slender thread of hope.

Today in labor history: San Francisco General Strike

July 16, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On July 16, 1934, the city of San Francisco shut down as 65,000 workers from all industries walked off the job, in response to a call by longshore workers for a general strike.