history

Labor history: U.S. autoworkers and the Soviet Union

May 30, 2012 By PW Editorial Board

Ford Motors signed a "technical assistance" contract with the Soviet Union.

Brazil probes dictatorship’s human rights abuses

May 29, 2012 By Pedro Conceicao

Brazil's government will now investigate human rights violations committed by the right-wing military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.

Steelworkers remember martyrs, fight for living

May 29, 2012 By Harold Wallace

The Republic Steel mill in south Chicago is sacred ground for the American labor movement.

Ten dead, a hundred injured in bloodstained Chicago field

May 25, 2012 By John Wojcik

They were on strike but the strike was just a week old so people were not yet in the direst of straights.

Labor history: “Bonus Army” starts national movement

May 25, 2012 By PW Editorial Board

Eighty years ago today, the first "Bonus Marchers" arrived in Washington, D.C.