politics – Page 145 – People's World

DOL nominee Scalia promises to enforce labor law, but ducks policy

September 19, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Despite the ducking, bobbing, and weaving, Scalia is on a fast track to sit in the Labor Secretary’s corner office.

Cuban reform: Overcoming the separation of economics and politics

September 18, 2019 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The term “economism” has been used since Lenin’s time to characterize a situation of political prerogatives losing out to economic ones and of the resulting trouble for the working class. Cuba's reform process faces the same...

Lawmaker: African-Americans battle backlash to challenges to power structure

September 17, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

“Racism is dangerous, but race ignorance is dangerous, too.”

The good, the bad and the ugly at Venice Film Festival 2019

September 4, 2019 By Dennis Broe

The film highlights the way the European high-level political and financial institutions are not about promoting but rather about neutralizing any democratic movement from below.

Build worker power and break the NRA with the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance

August 23, 2019 By Jonathan Swinton

Appealing to the deeply-held association many Americans have between owning firearms and liberty, the NRA brings millions under the political leadership of monopoly finance capital.