2009
The extraordinary life of Marvel Cooke
February 25, 2009Women’s History Month fittingly opens with International Women’s Day, March 8. On March 8, 1908, 15,000 women workers marched through New York’s Lower East Side demanding shorter hours, better pay, a needle trades union, and the...
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Celebrating Black history and Obamas roots
February 25, 2009CHICAGO –To celebrate African American history month, the People’s Weekly World and Workers Education Society hosted a distinguished panel over a delicious meal of the city’s finest soul food. Historian Dr. Timuel Black, civil rights, HIV/AIDS...
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Stanford: Biggest Texas scandal since Enron
February 24, 2009HOUSTON – With typical Texas flamboyance, Sir Robert Allen Stanford built a financial empire which stretched across Texas, through Mexico, the Caribbean islands and into South America. He was charged by the SEC on Feb. 17...
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LETTERS February 28, 2009
February 20, 2009Prediction World peace will come when the United States goes socialist. William Bunge Montreal, Canada Remembering Rose My mother, Rose Goldberg, passed away last year April. She was a bookkeeper for the PWW and her Communist...
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Nuclear wake-up call
February 20, 2009Kate Hudson, chair of the London-based Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, issued a grave warning after the collision of a British and a French nuclear-armed submarine patrolling the mid-Atlantic a couple of weeks ago. “This is a...
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