World

Tragic anniversaries with lessons for today

July 20, 2016 By Emile Schepers

We in the United States should learn from the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.

This week in history: Peoples’ Olympiad protests Berlin Olympics of 1936

July 18, 2016 By Special to People’s World

Many of the athletes were sent by trade unions, workers' clubs and associations, socialist and communist parties and left-wing groups.

Solidarity Center documents wage theft in Zimbabwe

July 18, 2016 By Tula Connell

Workers in Zimbabwe are seeing their already-low wages stolen at alarming rates.

Venezuela in crisis, U.S. intervenes

July 14, 2016 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Venezuela's people are suffering the consequences of a parasitic elite, and their economy's over-reliance on oil extraction.

Bolivarian Venezuela besieged

July 12, 2016 By Emile Schepers

For over a year, the left-wing Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro has been battling for its life. But it and its "Bolivarian" support base are not giving up.