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This week in history: Lefties of the world, unite!

August 13, 2018 By Special to People’s World

There is still a long way to go before “right-handed chauvinism” becomes universally understood.

Nuclear abolition: Protesters confront Livermore Lab on Hiroshima anniversary

August 10, 2018 By Marilyn Bechtel

Nobuaki Hanaoka was an infant in Nagasaki in August 1945 when the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb. He recalled how, when he was a child, "death came down with the rain.”

Ed Sadlowski – Remembrance of a life even bigger than the man

August 7, 2018 By Paul S. Kaczocha

Ed Sadlowski was a different leader, ahead in his time - opposing the war in Vietnam, tariffs and favoring a more democratic union.

This week in history: Nixon secures 1968 nomination, riot breaks out

August 6, 2018 By Special to People’s World

During the last two days of the convention, Black Americans protested militantly in nearby Liberty City.

August 1, 1917: The murder of Frank Little

August 1, 2018 By Gene Lantz

Within a month of Frank Little’s 1917 lynching at the hands of the copper bosses of Montana, the U.S. government launched the fiercest attack against the working class in our history.