"Liberation Music": Defining an era of protest through jazz
The music is representative of the free style era that bore it, but there is nothing obsolete about this compilation. It illuminate a period when musical expression played an important role in progressive politics.
Inequality in U.S. today is similar to 1929 and Gilded Age
Author Sam Pizzigati says that inequity and plutocracy are so bad that the U.S. now looks like a combination of 1929 - before the Great Depression - and the Gilded Age, before the Progressive Era.
Beatrice Lumpkin's extraordinary book about her extraordinary life
The interweaving of anger, sorrow, humor, and joy makes "Joy in the Struggle" a deeply human book about a woman who has devoted her entire life to the fight for equality, democracy, and peace.
"Multicultural Soup"
A poem from a recent People's World party, potluck and fundraiser celebrating international labor solidarity and the fight for immigrant rights.
The Used headline pro-LGBT tour, join "It Gets Better"
The Used, a popular rock/screamo band from Utah, are calling attention to a problem that plagues their state and many others: discrimination against gays and lesbians.
In memoriam: baseball labor pioneer Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller, the labor leader who built the Major League Baseball Players Association into sports' most powerful union, died Nov. 26.
How "The Hobbit" caused 27 animal deaths
Wranglers that worked with the animals had complained about the conditions, but their criticisms with the farm were reportedly ignored.
