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This week in history: Progressive Brazilian President Jânio Quadros born

January 23, 2017 By Special to People’s World

Quadros stunned his nation when he suddenly resigned from office with a terse message to the National Congress.

What Trump can and can’t do to immigrants

January 23, 2017 By David Bacon

"We have to go back to the social teachings our movement is based on—to the idea of justice.”

Women’s March in small town North Carolina

January 23, 2017 By Bruce Arnold

In New Bern, a sleepy coastal town of only 25,000 inhabitants, more than 300 people came out in the mist and the chill for a rally and march.

AFSCME in Illinois tries to restart bargaining with new proposal

January 19, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

The Rauner war against AFSCME has been going on ever since he won the governor’s chair in 2014.

Rediscovering a visionary 1959 program for Los Angeles

January 19, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

A communist recently shared a copy of “A Municipal Program for Los Angeles,” published in April ‘59 by the Communist Party of Southern Calif. and asked me what I thought of it.