Elections

Report refutes Emanuel’s austerity agenda for Chicago

March 26, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Proposals for getting Chicago's finances back on track without unconstitutional grabs at retiree pensions, cuts to vital services, and toxic bank fees.

Mixed results in Salvador vote: Big win for FMLN in capital

March 26, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Those familiar with the process attribute delays to the complexity of the ballots and a new system of voting and weighing votes.

In Israeli elections Arab citizens emerge as key to future

March 20, 2015 By Susan Webb

The new Joint List is now being hailed from the center to the left as the bright spot in the Israeli political scene.

Chuy, mayoral candidate in Chicago, ‘educates’ Rahm

March 19, 2015 By Roberta Wood

Emanuel "took money from these schools and gave it to elite private schools founded by big campaign contributors," Garcia charges.

Rise of Joint List’s Ayman Odeh shakes up Israeli politics

March 16, 2015 By Karin Laub

A politician who wants to build an Arab-Jewish "alliance of the disadvantaged," has emerged as one of the biggest surprises of Israel's election campaign.