Opinion – Page 850 – People's World

A first-class paper

January 17, 2009 By Dan Margolis

For more than 80 years, the People’s Weekly World and its predecessors, including the Daily Worker and the Daily World, have been delivering first-class coverage of news important to working people but ignored by the corporate...

Introducing 2008 Progie nominees

January 9, 2009 By Bill Meyer

The newly formed James Agee Cinema Circle has announced this year’s nominations for the Progie Awards honoring the best in progressive cinema. The group is named after the noted playwright, author and longtime writer for The...

Editorial: Time for a change on Cuba

January 9, 2009

Among the new opportunities that the election of a new president and Congress brings us is to end once and for all the vicious U.S. economic blockade and travel ban imposed on Cuba nearly 50 years...

Editorial: Peoples business cant wait

January 9, 2009

President-elect Obama’s now oft-repeated refrain that “the people’s business can’t wait” is becoming more obvious every day. The crashing of overloaded electronic unemployment filing systems in many parts of the country underlines again the urgency of...

You read it here first: predictions for 2009

January 9, 2009 By PWW writers and editors

When analog TV broadcast ends Feb. 17 all hell will break lose. The biggest stimulus package in U.S. history ... Campaigns for a restoration of full employment ... The Internet will spew democracy far beyond capitalism’s...