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#Bring our girls home

May 9, 2014 By Emile Schepers

A wave of revulsion has spread worldwide over the news of the kidnapping of young girls from a school at Chibok, in Borno State in Northwestern Nigeria by the violent Boko Haram sect.

Today in labor history: end of the “Vietnam era”

May 7, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On May 7, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford formally declared an end to the "Vietnam era."

Colombia: Jorge Gaitan and the struggle for peace

April 7, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Peace negotiators of FARC, who've been meeting in Cuba with Colombian government representatives, called for investigating origins of conflict in Colombia.

Venezuela’s Bolivarian government defends against rightist violence

February 18, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government is facing its biggest challenge since his electoral victory on April 14, 2013 - still unrecognized by the U.S. government.

Today in Labor history: Pancho Villa escapes capture

January 29, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On January 28, 1917 the United States government gave up the search for Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa. What is officially known in the United States as the "Mexican Expedition" started March 14, 1916 and involved...