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Women’s leader warns that everyone’s health care is under attack

February 23, 2012 By Tony Pecinovsky

Right-wingers are waging an assault on the rights not just of women, but of all workers.

Honduran resistance group forms political party

February 21, 2012 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Honduras' National Front for Popular Resistance gathered in Tegucigalpa, Feb. 11-12, to launch a political party. The name, Liberation and Re-foundation Party (Libre), is timely: Honduras is mired in catastrophe.

Black History Month: Happy birthday Nina Simone

February 21, 2012 By Teresa Albano

Legendary artist and civil rights activist Nina Simone was born 79 years ago today, Feb. 21, in Tryon, North Carolina.

Today is 75th anniversary of Rep. Barbara Jordan’s birth (with video)

February 21, 2012 By Joe Sims

The daughter of a minister and domestic worker, Barbara Jordan was the first black woman elected to the Texas Senate and the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress from the deep South.

Labor groups defend different pieces of national health care law

February 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

With the national health care revision law yet to fully take effect, but under challenge before the Supreme Court, six labor organizations have stepped forward, four of them joining other groups, to defend different parts of...