veterans

Veterans’ health care in crosshairs of privatization forces

June 16, 2016 By Roberta Wood

A blue-ribbon commission is set to recommend that private health companies take over from the federally-run VA. Yet no one has asked veterans what they think.

Vietnam cares for its veterans

April 18, 2016 By Nguyen Thi Thanh Xuan And Roberta Wood

Vietnam spends 25 percent of its national budget providing pensions and social services to the nine million people who are veterans or related to them.

Money bills top labor’s agenda as Congress returns to work

September 2, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

It's not just the numbers that are important, it's anti-worker measures the majority Republicans may try to insert into the measures, too.

Today in history: Mass arrests in 2004 Republican National Convention crackdown

August 31, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Protest activity against the convention and Bush's re-nomination included a broad range of marches, rallies, performances, demonstrations, exhibits, and acts of civil disobedience.

Today in history: World War I vets demand relief

May 29, 2015 By Special to People’s World

During the Great Depression, the "Bonus Expeditionary Force," a group of World War I veterans seeking to cash in their veterans' bonus certificates, arrived in D.C.