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Dr. Manning Marable: A personal remembrance

April 14, 2011 By Jarvis Tyner

A great African American warrior for the people, Dr. Manning Marable, passed away on April 1st, 2011.

150 years later, a new battle over labor

April 12, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

Our country today, April 12, marks the 150th anniversary of the official start of the Civil War with the firing on Fort Sumter.

After 64 years, still paying the price for Taft-Hartley

April 5, 2011 By John Wojcik

How did the landmark anti-labor legislation, backed at that time by Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon, come to be the law of the land?

“Miral”: controversial film paints Middle East mirage

April 5, 2011 By Eric A. Gordon And Dale Greenfield

Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's latest venture onto the screen is a controversial adaptation of Rula Jebreal's novelistic memoir of her childhood and youth beginning just around the time of the Nakba, otherwise known as Israel's...

“Have you left no sense of decency?”

March 29, 2011 By Norman Markowitz

In the midst of the battle in Wisconsin, the Republican Party has revived McCarthyism to attack William Cronon, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Wisconsin.