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Changing the balance of power between Capital and Labor

July 21, 2014 By David Mirtz

The private appropriation of socially produced wealth is capitalism's central mechanism.

Convergence in Jacksonville to call for Marissa Alexander’s freedom

July 18, 2014 By Aleta Alston-Toure

Regional and national activists will come together to support domestic violence survivor Marissa Alexander and strengthen opposition to mandatory minimum sentencing.

Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, activist, dies

July 16, 2014 By Christopher Torchia

Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 for novels that explored the complex relationships and human cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa.

Jose Antonio Vargas, immigrant rights leader, arrested by border patrol

July 15, 2014 By Special to People’s World

United We Dream Minority Affairs Council said Vargas was in Texas this past weekend in solidarity with unaccompanied children who cross the Texas border fleeing for their lives.

AFSCME grows by 90,000 since January

July 15, 2014 By John Wojcik

The union sees its successful organizing campaign as a clear indication that face-to-face organizing is the proper response to what has been an onslaught of attacks on public service workers.