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A union leader goes on a crusade for democracy

March 20, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

A top Communications Workers official has taken the union's democracy crusade to the good-government group Common Cause.

40 years after, Watergate crimes remain relevant

March 15, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Common Cause gathered almost everyone it could find from the Watergate era for a 2-day retrospective reviewing the constitutional crimes, known as "Watergate," that brought down Richard Nixon.

Today in women’s history: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony died

March 13, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On March 13, 1906, Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, N.Y., shortly after her eighty-sixth birthday.She was a pioneer leader of the cause of women's right to vote.,

Labor mobilizes to save Voting Rights Act

February 27, 2013 By John Wojcik

Voting rights were high on the agenda of the AFL-CIO's executive council meeting February 27 as the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Section 5 of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.

AFL-CIO: Unions decline tied to attacks on democracy

February 27, 2013 By John Wojcik

Reports showing union membership at an all-time low are of enormous concern at a gathering of the nation's labor leaders. Members of the AFL-CIO executive council see it tied to attacks on democratic rights.