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Shepard Memorial: “We’ve come far but have far yet to go.”

November 9, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

The recent memorial service and reburial at Washington National Cathedral of Matthew Shepard showed “the distance we’ve come and how far we’ve yet to travel” for LGBTQ people.

The Discarded Soldier

November 9, 2018 By Liam O’Flaherty

The Discarded Soldier was cast into the great city, homeless, unwanted, penniless. Capitalism no longer needed him.

“Enemy of the people”: Trump steps up attacks on freedom of the press

November 8, 2018 By C.J. Atkins

Karl Marx once wrote, “The free press is the ubiquitous, vigilant eye of a people’s soul…the embodied culture that transforms material struggles into ideological struggles.”

Scab worker causes NYC’s Malbone subway disaster 100 years ago today

November 1, 2018 By Special to PeoplesWorld.org

One hundred years ago, on November 1, 1918, the worst subway accident in the history of New York City took place: the Malbone Street Wreck.

How Frankenstein and Dracula created…a union

October 31, 2018 By Tom Campbell

And Karloff wasn’t the only one who saw the worth of having a union in the workplace. Dracula star Bela Lugosi was also pro-union, and the two both actively organized actors and actresses on the sets...