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GOP budget would shift the country sharply to the right

April 20, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

President Obama got it right when he said the Republican Party's goal is about "changing the basic social compact in America." Politics, however, does not begin at the top.

Video: “From Wisconsin to Washington, stand up for jobs, workers’ rights and peace”

April 16, 2011 By Special to People’s World

NEW YORK - The CPUSA held its First Annual Conference in New York City, today, April 16.

News flash: Americans aren’t anti-worker

April 12, 2011 By Peter Hart

Polls have found Wisconsin Gov. Walker's union-busting tactics to be widely unpopular despite the major media's presumption that the opposite would be true.

Media democracy vs. corporations: “Most important issue facing country”

April 11, 2011 By Susan Webb

More than 2,500 activists at the National Conference for Media Reform, April 8-10, discussed the fight to defend and expand freedom of the press in the face of corporate power grabs.

To guarantee life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, tax the rich

April 11, 2011 By Wally Kaufman

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are rights written into the U.S. Declaration of Independence, to be pursued as goals for free citizens living in a democratic society.