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Black clergy and labor unite against voter suppression

September 5, 2012 By Rick Nagin

Reacting to Republican efforts to suppress voting, the African American community and the AFL-CIO are mounting a massive effort to promote balloting.

Mexico’s Lopez Obrador vows continued campaign vs. election fraud

September 5, 2012 By Tim Pelzer

Lopez Obrador said he will not recognize a ruling by the top electoral court that the July 1 Mexican presidential elections were fair and clean.

“Democracy at Crossroads: Class Warfare and 2012 Elections” released

September 4, 2012 By Special to People’s World

People's World pamphlet "Democracy at the Crossroads: Class Warfare and the 2012 Elections" is available to order or to download.

Ryan and Akin serve notice of imminent threat to democracy

August 24, 2012 By Sam Webb

Every inch of social progress secured in the course of struggle over the past several decades is subject to reversal in the event of a government takeover by the Republican Party.

Today in labor and peoples history: Voting Rights Act of 1965

August 6, 2012 By Special to People’s World

Today in 1965 in the presence of Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and others, President Lyndon Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act forbid the discriminatory voting practices against African Americans and...