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June 26, 2020 at 7:15 PM

Pandemic Pride: LGBTQ struggle continues, learns from Black Lives Matter

Pandemic Pride: LGBTQ struggle continues, learns from Black Lives Matter By C.J. Atkins This weekend marks a half-century since the first Pride march took place on June 28, 1970. That initial event in New York City, called “Christopher Street Libera…
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June 26, 2020 at 11:01 AM

U.S. coronavirus infection rate now highest since pandemic began

U.S. coronavirus infection rate now highest since pandemic began By John Wojcik More than 45,500 new coronavirus infections were reported in the U.S. overnight, not by the federal government but by state health departments—blowing out of the water b…
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June 24, 2020 at 9:26 PM

Progressives rack up impressive victories in June 23 Democratic primaries

Progressives rack up impressive victories in June 23 Democratic primaries By John Wojcik Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rolled to a blowout victory in her Democratic primary yesterday in her New York City Congressional District that covers parts of t…
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June 24, 2020 at 3:58 AM

Push to reopen early behind current COVID outbreak in South

Push to reopen early behind current COVID outbreak in South By John Wojcik The current coronavirus outbreak in the South and West is explained by the loosening of restrictions and lockdowns that began on the Memorial Day weekend, according to the na…
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June 23, 2020 at 12:08 AM

Hundreds of thousands join the New Poor People's Campaign virtual March

Hundreds of thousands join the New Poor People’s Campaign virtual March By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—From eradication of poverty, an end to U.S. racism, to dismantling the war machine and creating a Green New Deal with thousands of well-paying jobs—…
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June 18, 2020 at 11:40 PM

'Workers First' car caravans drive mass turnouts nationwide

‘Workers First’ car caravans drive mass turnouts nationwide By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—From Fairbanks to San Juan and from Bangor to Honolulu, workers nationwide turned out June 17 in car caravans, at press conferences, and in call-ins to lawmaker…
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June 17, 2020 at 12:13 AM

Supreme Court bans discrimination on the job against LGBTQ people

Supreme Court bans discrimination on the job against LGBTQ people By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Civil rights groups, gay rights groups, the AFL-CIO and other unions hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 15 ruling outlawing job discrimination against l…
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June 16, 2020 at 3:23 AM

U.S. government's legitimacy crisis calls out for socialist solutions

U.S. government’s legitimacy crisis calls out for socialist solutions By Joel Wendland-Liu Trump lies. Habitual dishonesty, whether it is masking the jobs crisis, the pandemic, or downplaying racism, is his signature feature. It has cost lives and t…
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June 11, 2020 at 8:33 PM

Trump hails Confederate names, monuments, and military bases

Trump hails Confederate names, monuments, and military bases By John Wojcik and C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON—Donald Trump said yesterday he would “not even consider” renaming Army installations that honor Confederate traitors who fought to protect an auto…
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June 11, 2020 at 4:15 PM

Voter suppression in Georgia portends catastrophe for November

Voter suppression in Georgia portends catastrophe for November By Mark Gruenberg ATLANTA—The big story in the political party primaries on June 9 wasn’t who won or lost, but voter suppression in Georgia – and what that could mean for November’s ball…
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June 9, 2020 at 10:13 PM

Keep marching: From streets to voting booth and back again

Keep marching: From streets to voting booth and back again By Joe Sims With a nationwide uprising over the public execution of George Floyd, and Trump’s use of military force in D.C.’s Lafayette Square, the country has entered an extremely dangerous…
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June 9, 2020 at 3:40 AM

Black Lives Matter movement sweeps the world

Black Lives Matter movement sweeps the world By Combined Sources Hundreds of thousands of people gathered this weekend in cities far from the United States to express anger over the death of George Floyd, a sign that the Black Lives Matter movement …
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June 5, 2020 at 9:31 PM

Nation mourns George Floyd as uprising against racism continues

Nation mourns George Floyd as uprising against racism continues By John Bachtell Beneath the backdrop of unrelenting coast-to-coast multi-racial protests, six days of mourning began for George Floyd with a memorial service at North Central Universit…
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June 5, 2020 at 7:05 PM

Trumka, other labor leaders, commit unions to the fight against racism

Trumka, other labor leaders, commit unions to the fight against racism By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Declaring that working people are saying, “We’ve had enough,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said unions will continue the fight to root out system…
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June 3, 2020 at 9:09 PM

Voters dump a white supremacist and make a Black woman mayor

Voters dump a white supremacist and make a Black woman mayor By John Wojcik In the midst of the worst multi-layered crisis in U.S. history, the nation has cause to celebrate today after voters in two states delivered a powerful double victory to the…
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June 2, 2020 at 8:49 PM

Turning point: Trump threatens military rule, turns country toward fascism

Turning point: Trump threatens military rule, turns country toward fascism By C.J. Atkins Was he declaring martial law, or was he not? The vagueness of Trump’s “law and order” speech Monday night was calculated to give the appearance of getting toug…
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June 2, 2020 at 3:02 AM

Nationwide uprising against racist police violence

Nationwide uprising against racist police violence By People's World Editorial Board Up to 50 million jobless and 100,000 people dead—those are the backdrops to what has become a national uprising against police violence targeting Black people in Am…
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May 30, 2020 at 11:01 AM

'When the looting starts, the shooting starts': Trump revives segregationist war cry

‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts’: Trump revives segregationist war cry By C.J. Atkins On the day following George Floyd’s lynching by officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, President Donald Trump announced an FBI investigation …
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May 29, 2020 at 11:07 PM

Dem lawmakers join Biden slamming Trump for not protecting workers

Dem lawmakers join Biden slamming Trump for not protecting workers By: Mark Gruenberg Everyone from Joe Biden to Democratic lawmakers to unions are condemning OSHA for failing to enforce worker safety rules. Read…
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May 28, 2020 at 10:29 PM

Trump declares COVID-19 vaccine war, but can he hold the world hostage?

Trump declares COVID-19 vaccine war, but can he hold the world hostage? By: Prabir Purkayastha Donald Trump launched a new vaccine war last week, but not against the virus. It was against the world. Read More » …
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May 28, 2020 at 12:00 AM

'I can't breathe!': Minneapolis erupts in protest after murder of George Floyd

‘I can’t breathe!’: Minneapolis erupts in protest after murder of George Floyd By: Chauncey K. Robinson Civil unrest and outrage have overtaken the city of Minneapolis as a community seeks retribution for the death…
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May 27, 2020 at 11:01 PM

100,000 dead – The cost of Trump's failed COVID response

100,000 dead – The cost of Trump’s failed COVID response By People's World Editorial Board If the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States has not yet surpassed 100,000 when you are reading this, tragically, it soon will. In the space of…
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May 26, 2020 at 10:50 PM

Neoliberal solutions won't save us from this pandemic

Neoliberal solutions won’t save us from this pandemic By Joe Sims A lot of hope—and rightly so—is being placed in what a post-Trump country and world might look like. And yes, almost anything would be better. (As a popular lawn sign reads, “2020: An…
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May 26, 2020 at 11:01 AM

Little Steel Strike: Remembering the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre

Little Steel Strike: Remembering the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre By Fred Gaboury South Chicago, Memorial Day 1937: Mollie West was there with a group of high school seniors. Curtis Strong was there for the hell of it. Aaron Cohen was there because of…
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May 23, 2020 at 11:02 AM

'Save the News' – Local journalists resist media monopolies

‘Save the News’ – Local journalists resist media monopolies By Al Neal “Extra, extra! Read all about it!” This iconic, almost timeless callout was typically accompanied by the sight of a ramshackle newsstand providing, sometimes but not always, the …
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May 22, 2020 at 12:56 AM

Using 'economic recovery' excuse, Trump trashes all federal rules and regulations

Using ‘economic recovery’ excuse, Trump trashes all federal rules and regulations By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Catering to corporate chieftains and right-wing ideologues, GOP President Donald Trump ordered all federal departments and agencies, large…
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May 20, 2020 at 10:30 PM

'Anti-lockdown protesters' are nothing but strikebreakers

‘Anti-lockdown protesters’ are nothing but strikebreakers By Bruce Bostick In the middle of this deadly COVID-19 pandemic, which has already cost our nation over 90,000 lives, we’ve seen the spectacle of crowds of heavily armed racist white men dema…
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May 20, 2020 at 8:49 PM

Bending PPE rules spells death for health care workers and families

Bending PPE rules spells death for health care workers and families By Roberta Wood CHICAGO—If he could have worn a fresh N95 mask for every procedure as mandated by the Centers for Disease Control, would surgical technologist Juan Martínez be alive…
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May 19, 2020 at 8:13 PM

Trump deportation frenzy threatens the lives of thousands

Trump deportation frenzy threatens the lives of thousands By Emile Schepers The hostility of President Donald Trump and his entourage toward immigrants from the poorer countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean has long been notorio…
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May 18, 2020 at 8:03 PM

Biden, Sanders form task force to unite party on progressive agenda

Biden, Sanders form task force to unite party on progressive agenda By John Wojcik Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders have established a task force to unite the Democratic Party on a progressive agenda. The action reflects the u…
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May 14, 2020 at 9:55 PM

The Congressional Progressive Caucus wants guaranteed income in stimulus bill

The Congressional Progressive Caucus wants guaranteed income in stimulus bill By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Upset by what was left out of the House Democrats’ $3 trillion economic stimulus bill – notably guaranteed payments to every worker, jobless o…
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May 13, 2020 at 10:53 PM

Democrats' $3 trillion stimulus includes hazard pay, PPE; Republicans say no

Democrats’ $3 trillion stimulus includes hazard pay, PPE; Republicans say no By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—House Democrats released a new $3 trillion stimulus bill on May 12, designed to cope with the continuing economic collapse that coronavirus-cau…
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May 13, 2020 at 3:06 AM

COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada zero. Why?

COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada zero. Why? By Mark Gruenberg OAKLAND, Calif.—There’s a yawning gap between the number of U.S. nurses the viral pandemic has killed so far in the U.S. and the number of Canadian nurses killed. The count a…
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May 12, 2020 at 4:20 AM

Class conflict rages in the fight over next stimulus bill

Class conflict rages in the fight over next stimulus bill By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Call it class conflict: The fight over the next economic stimulus bill will pit the representatives of the rich against the representatives of the rest of us. And…
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May 8, 2020 at 11:15 PM

The stock market is not the economy

The stock market is not the economy By C.J. Atkins For years, Trump has been telling us that when the stock market soars, the economy booms for us all. Whenever the Dow Jones or the S&P 500 hit a new high, we’ve been expected to clap and cheer f…
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May 8, 2020 at 11:01 PM

Final days of the war against fascism-from the Daily Worker archives

Final days of the war against fascism—from the Daily Worker archives By People's World 75 years after the defeat of Hitler and the fall of fascism in Europe, we present highlights from those historic days as they were covered in the pages of the Dai…
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May 7, 2020 at 9:00 PM

Amazon workers on May Day: Protect us from this virus

Amazon workers on May Day: Protect us from this virus By: David Bacon They called it Essential Workers Day, a good name for May Day this year in recognition of their work during the pandemic. Read More »   …
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May 7, 2020 at 7:23 PM

Long live death: Trump sidelines task force, says open economy

Long live death: Trump sidelines task force, says open economy By C.J. Atkins “There will be more death,” President Donald Trump said yesterday, less than 24 hours after a leaked CDC document showed new government models projecting the possibility o…
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May 6, 2020 at 3:06 AM

Leaked CDC report projects 200,000 infections per day by June 1

Leaked CDC report projects 200,000 infections per day by June 1 By John Wojcik and C.J. Atkins The Trump administration, despite urging a re-opening of the economy, is sitting on its own projections that the daily death toll from COVID-19 will nearl…
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May 5, 2020 at 5:01 PM

Hunger stalks the land: Parents skipping meals to feed their kids

Hunger stalks the land: Parents skipping meals to feed their kids By Ellen Knickmeyer and Jacquelyn Martin WASHINGTON (AP)—When all this started—when the coronavirus began stalking humanity like an animal hunting prey, when she and her husband lost …
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April 30, 2020 at 8:04 PM

May Day strike at Amazon, Walmart, FedEx, Target, Instacart, Whole Foods!

May Day strike at Amazon, Walmart, FedEx, Target, Instacart, Whole Foods! By Mark Gruenberg Dangerous pandemic-caused working conditions at warehouses, in the “gig economy,” and at big box stores are forcing tens of thousands of workers at six large…
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April 30, 2020 at 4:30 PM

Dance in solidarity and hope on May Day!

DANCE IN SOLIDARITY AND HOPE ON MAY DAY! - DANCE IN SOLIDARITY AND HOPE ON MAY DAY!   The Communist Party USA, The Worker's Education Society and People's World invite you to join us virtually on Friday, May 1st, 2020 for a May Day online cele…
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April 29, 2020 at 11:38 PM

Trump orders workers back into dangerous meat plants

Trump orders workers back into dangerous meat plants By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—The union that represents huge numbers of the nation’s beef, poultry and pork processing plant workers is demanding that the GOP Trump administration ensure those work…
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April 28, 2020 at 9:19 PM

As coronavirus still rages, debate over post-virus future heats up

As coronavirus still rages, debate over post-virus future heats up By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Even as the coronavirus pandemic still rages through the U.S., the debate over the shape of society and the economy, post-virus, is heating up. On one si…
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April 27, 2020 at 11:08 PM

No thanks to your thanks, just give us safety at work

No thanks to your thanks, just give us safety at work By Molly Parsons Everywhere, our leaders are talking about “The Great Rebuild” that is to come, while failing to address the critical issues essential workers face today. We are sick and dying NO…
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April 25, 2020 at 10:06 PM

Two million People's World readers say: You're essential to our lives

Two million People's World readers say: You're essential to our lives - Dear John,   As you know, People’s World is offering unique daily coverage of this unprecedented global public health and economic crisis. That is why our readership, whic…
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April 24, 2020 at 4:26 PM

Sioux Falls Smithfield disaster reflects ongoing national battle

Sioux Falls Smithfield disaster reflects ongoing national battle By John Wojcik SIOUX FALLS, S.D.—Just two days after the coronavirus took the life of a second worker at the Smithfield plant here, the town council on Tuesday unanimously voted to kil…
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April 24, 2020 at 4:18 PM

Is it time to think about Unemployed Councils?

Is it time to think about Unemployed Councils? By Bruce Bostick Unemployed Councils cropped up across the country in the 1930s during the Great Depression and again in the 1980s after the mass layoffs in the steel industry. I was a part of the effor…
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April 22, 2020 at 9:41 PM

Nurses read names of 50 dead colleagues at White House protest

Nurses read names of 50 dead colleagues at White House protest By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—More than a dozen nurses, clothed in their scrubs and wearing N95 anti-viral masks, marched to the White House on the morning of April 21 and read the names …
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April 22, 2020 at 10:01 AM

Lenin's legacy at 150: Working class leadership in the fight for democracy

Lenin’s legacy at 150: Working class leadership in the fight for democracy By Joe Sims Lenin walks around the world. . . The sun sets like a scar, Between the darkness and the dawn, There rises a red star. —Langston Hughes The world is a better …
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