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Today in labor history: Seattle Post-Intelligencer strike takes place

August 13, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The Post-Intelligencer is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which, at the time, was notorious for anti-unionism and anti-communism.

Berlin still hopes for an end to all war

August 12, 2013 By Victor Grossman

The hot, seemingly untroubled vacation days in Germany have been disturbed by two abbreviations, NSU and NSA.

Today in labor history: Mexican leader Emilano Zapata born

August 8, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Zapata headed the land reform struggles of Mexican farmers and was a leader of the Mexican revolution.

“Conduct of Saints”: conscience, crime, and Catholics in post-Nazi Rome

August 8, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon

Emanating from a small publishing house, this novel likely has no five- or six-figure advertising budget, and may escape notice. Make sure your local library gets it.

Today in labor history: No more Hiroshimas or Nagasakis

August 6, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the only two cases of using a nuclear weapon against civilians.