While golfers play, locked out workers picket
PLEASANTON, Calif. - Bright spring grass, gentle breezes, a tree-lined country road. It should have been an idyllic setting for the golfers fanning out across the fairways at Castlewood Country Club on a sunny Sunday morning. But...
Tired of margarine, janitors demand health care as their “butter”
Detroit janitors fight foraffordable health care as key contract issue. " I'm tired of Parkay, I want butter too."
Frank Lumpkin, “Saint of Chicago,” dies at 93
Frank Lumpkin, the "Saint of Chicago" and life long fighter for worker rights, full equality and socialism, passed away March 1 at the age of 93.
African American Communist, WW II seaman, dies at 107
Jacob Green, an African American seaman who braved Nazi U-boats while supplying the Soviet Union during World War II, and later served as chairman of the Communist Party of Maryland, died Feb. 19. He was 107.
Debate rages on how to solve Black unemployment
A debate raged recently over growing Black unemployment - 30 percent among youth - as President Obama renewed federal support for historically Black colleges.
Illinois gov. seeking full term says economy needs new ideas
ORLANDO, Fla. (PAI) - Pat Quinn claims he is thinking out of the box. The times - and the economy of both his state and the nation - demand it. And he wishes politicians in Washington would do the same.
CPUSA @ 90: How Minnesota Communists helped organize car wash
We continue our series on the 90th Anniversary of the Communist Party USA with an excerpt of an interview with Betty Smith, director of International Publishers - the publishing house of the CPUSA.
Teacher dies in hail of handgun bullets
Killing of teacher Jennifer Paulson, 30, in Tacoma, Wash., following Colorado school shootings, spurs calls for tighter gun control.
Black history, labor history intertwined in Detroit
Between the two World Wars, the groundwork was laid in Detroit's Black community that culminated in the organizing of the world's most powerful corporation.
GOP wages war vs. local government
In Indiana, GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels is waging war on local communities.
