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Today in labor history: Paul Robeson loses passport appeal

August 16, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On August 16, 1955, internationally known actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson lost his court appeal to force the U.S. State Department to grant him a passport.

The White House and “Cold War mentality”

August 9, 2013 By PW Editorial

President Obama told a Tonight Show audience Aug. 6 that there are times the Russians "slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality."

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.

Goal is Israeli-Palestine pact in 9 months, Kerry says

August 2, 2013 By Susan Webb

"Our objective will be to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months," Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday after Israeli-Palestinian talks opened for the first time in three years.

Today in labor history: first general strike in Canada held

August 2, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The first general strike in Canadian history was held in Vancouver on this day in 1918, organized as a 1-day political protest against the killing of draft evader and labor activist Albert "Ginger" Goodwin.