Tim Yeager
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Labor
How can people of faith help workers? A sermon from the late Tim Yeager
April 5, 2024Tim Yeager—a man known and beloved by many People’s World readers—died on April 2. Here’s a sermon he once delivered to an audience of faith and labor leaders from around the country.
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Opinion
Class struggle and the revolutionary hope of Christmas
December 20, 2017What does Christmas have to do with the class struggle? In a word, everything.
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A Marxist perspective on religion today
May 6, 2005Among the “wedge” issues with which the ultra-right attempts to divide the working class are the questions of (1) rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, including marriage or civil unions, access to benefits and...
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Culture
America the Beautiful a call to struggle
September 17, 2004In 1893, a 34-year-old English teacher from Massachusetts rode a mule to the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado. As she stood at the summit, she beheld the vista of the Great Plains spreading out to...
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Faith, labor and community still say NO to war
April 2, 2004Opinion The following is adapted from a speech at a March 20 antiwar gathering at Chicago Methodist Temple. Insofar as we are meeting in a house of worship, I would like to begin with a little...
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Afghan childrens fund: show us the money
November 30, 2001“America’s Fund for Afghan Children” – this is the name George W. Bush has given his “dollar for Afghan kids” drive. My daughter received a letter from her school requesting that she bring a dollar in...
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