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January 7, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Radical labor activist Tom Mooney, accused of a murder by bombing in San Francisco, was pardoned and freed after 22 years in San Quentin.

January 4, 2013 By Scott Marshall

Forty years. Damn it's been a long time.

January 3, 2013 By Special to People’s World

In the depths of the Great Depression, some 500 farmers marched into the town of England, Ark., to demand food for their starving families.

January 2, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day, in 1872 John Roy Lynch, an African American former slave, was elected speaker of the Mississippi House.

December 28, 2012 By Special to People’s World

It was the first attempt to found a national miner's union.