People's World - 100th Anniversary
Ford Hunger March 1932: When workers were gunned down in Detroit
March 7, 2025The Daily Worker was on the scene as 5,000 workers faced down Henry Ford’s machine guns.
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The ‘Sit-Down Strike’ that brought General Motors to its knees: Three workers remember
December 30, 2024Interviews with three labor heroes who participated in the historic 1936-37 strike that unionized the auto industry.
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The death of the Soviet Union: Our Moscow correspondent reports in 1991
December 20, 2024On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the red hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. The next day, Dec. 26, the USSR...
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General Motors’ 1991 Christmas Massacre: 21 plants, 74,000 jobs gone
December 19, 2024At Christmastime in 1991, GM boss Robert Stempel became the new Ebenezer Scrooge.
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1951: Truman launches propaganda campaign to distract from ‘We Charge Genocide’ petition
December 18, 2024As William L. Patterson and Paul Robeson were about to expose the crimes of the U.S. government against Black Americans, the Truman administration lied, telling the world that Black life was great in America.
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