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Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas slain Monday

May 16, 2017 By Committee to Protect Journalists

Valdez was shot and killed today near the offices of Ríodoce, the local weekly he founded in 2003 in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, according to reports.

This week in history: The National Center for Lesbian Rights is born

May 15, 2017 By Special to People’s World

It is the only organization in the U.S. dedicated to lesbian legal issues, and the largest national lesbian organization in terms of members.

Google’s CEO tops unions’ list of greediest execs

May 15, 2017 By PAI

The average CEO last year earned $13.1 million in pay and perks, compared to a median wage of $37,600 for U.S. workers, the Paywatch site notes.

OSHA drops “walkaround” privileges for union safety experts in non-union shops

May 15, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

Before, workers “without a collective bargaining agreement” could designate “a person affiliated with a union or a community organization as their walkaround representative.” Now, they can’t.

The New York Times cannot dispel the class struggle

May 12, 2017 By Rick Nagin

As someone who joined the Party much later, in 1970, I beg to differ. I joined the party after five years of activism against the war in Vietnam. Vietnamese communists, were a critical part of the...