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Emil Shaw, lifelong fighter for justice

September 28, 2010 By Special to People’s World

Emil Shaw, who fled Nazi Austria with his family at the age of nine, and became a lifelong social justice activist, died Sept. 12, 2010, in Albuquerque, N.M.

Trumka, panel debate working-class anger and elections

September 28, 2010 By Dan Margolis

"There is a class war going on in this country," AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said during a September 24 panel discussion at the Cooper Union, "and my class is losing. We've got to turn that around."

Hope is stronger than hate

September 28, 2010 By Jarvis Tyner

In their effort to win the Congress this year and the White House in 2012, the Republican Party and their tea party attack dogs are unashamedly promoting fear, racism, bigotry and red-baiting.

Jobs and sustainable future threatened by California’s Prop. 23

September 21, 2010

Whichever way California's Proposition 23 goes in the November elections so could go green jobs, government and private investment in clean technology, and a sustainable economy.

Women soccer players score union recognition

September 10, 2010 By Pepe Lozano

U.S. professional women soccer players scored a goal this week after the Women's Professional Soccer Players Union won recognition through a majority sign-up, certified by an arbitrator with the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league.