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Jewish Labor Committee remembers coronavirus dead on traditional mourning day

July 29, 2020 By PAI

A vow, in the words of famed union organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones: “Mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

150,000 dead of coronavirus in U.S.: What monument will they have?

July 28, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon

We have a collective grief to deal with in our land, yet from our highest tribunes all we hear is, “This will be over sooner than you know it, get back to work."

Iconoclash: Removing racist monuments doesn’t erase history

July 23, 2020 By Al Neal

For as quickly as empires rise and fall—and fall they will—so too fall their monuments, statues, artwork, and gods.

Confederate statues are monuments to the ‘Lost Cause’ cult of white supremacy

July 23, 2020 By Judith Ezekiel

Confederate monuments are not memorials to fallen soldiers or to victims of war: They are intentional instruments in revisionist U.S. history pushing a sympathetic view of the Confederacy.

Angy Lebowitz, lifelong activist in the ‘good fight,’ to celebrate 100th birthday

July 20, 2020 By Special to People’s World

To commemorate the 100th birthday of lifelong People's World supporter Angy Lebowitz, we share interviews with her that first appeared in our pages in 1995 and 2006.