Pattycake the gorilla made life better
I was 22 years old and living in my native Brooklyn when "Pattycake" was born in the Central Park Zoo on Sept. 3, 1972.Her birth was celebrated almost universally by New Yorkers, weary as we were at...
View ArticleReader voices: Relationships with no rights
If we've learned anything from how capitalists conduct their economic blood sport, it is that they give nothing useful away for free. You can gauge how important something is by how hard they fight...
View ArticleThe Cuban Revolution began in 1959
HAVANA TIMES - Under a title devoid of historical accuracy and objectivity, Roberto Zurbano (the director of Cuba's Casa de las Americas publishing house) is trying to characterize the situation of...
View ArticleNCAA and truth of college sports
As college sports fans ready themselves for the NCAA Basketball National Championship Game, a new report from the National College Players Association and the Drexel University Sport Management...
View ArticleThatcher - Britain's most-hated prime minister
Margaret Thatcher, who the Morning Star describes as the most hated British prime minister of the 20th century, died yesterday.Victims of her attacks in the 1980's against workers and their allies...
View ArticleFor the millionth time: Hands off Social Security!
Is this déjà vu? Presidents get re-elected, they make proposals to cut or privatize Social Security and Medicare, the American people react with righteous anger and the president loses the...
View ArticleKeep hope alive, build a transformative movement
It is easy to become frustrated with the pace and the scale of change in recent years. Over the past 30 years or more, we have lost far more battles than we have won. Nearly every section of the...
View ArticleLiterature in crisis
Earlier this month, The New York Times published a guest editorial by mystery author Scott Turow. Turow titled his piece, 'The Slow Death of the American Author' and opened with a lament that, as a...
View ArticlePostal mail: There's no app for that
Possibly it is a day when I don't have enough to do, but I did read an email that referred to postal mail as "snail mail." That is a popular term with all the younger folks and those who are really hip...
View ArticleHow was it growing up under communism?
In a recent article in the London Daily Mail. Suzanna Clark, now a British citizen, talked about what it was like growing up "behind the Iron Curtain" in Hungary in the Seventies and Eightees."Most...
View ArticleChaos, then inspiration after bombing
The People's World staff adds its condolences to the victims and their families of yesterday's despicable bombings at the Boston Marathon. In the wake of the awful news, we tweeted, "Heartfelt thoughts...
View ArticleHow to tax the rich and audit them too!
WASHINGTON - Auditors at the IRS generally do a decent job identifying how much wealthy taxpayers are trying to shortchange Uncle Sam. But the understaffed IRS is only examining a fraction of the...
View ArticleCan Destry ride again? An essay on gun control
The 1939 George Marshall, Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich movie "Destry Rides Again" says nearly all that needs to be said on subject of gun violence. In sum, the movie's moral is: if you want to live...
View Article“Sticks to your soul” writing: Tribute to Phillip Bonosky
[Editor's note: Peoplesworld.org received the following appreciation and unique tribute to author and activist Phillip Bonosky from a "discerning reader" and library worker in Pittsburgh. We reprint it...
View ArticleRest in peace, Richie Havens
Richie Havens, an African American musician, hit the folk scene big time with the classic "Mixed Bag" in 1967. His "Handsome Johnny" composition caught my ear first with its fast then light Spanish...
View ArticleThe last mainstream intellectual defense of austerity crumbles
In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (know in the econ trade as "R & R") released a paper, "Growth in a Time of Debt." The paper's profile was boosted by the authors' rising fame...
View ArticleBush Library: Brazen attempt to rewrite history
With a price tag of $250 million, the George W. Bush library is the biggest and most expensive of the 13 that have been opened to recognize the former presidents.It is a major part of a...
View ArticleNYC transit worker’s death prompts training reflection
In the early morning hours of April 24, Transit Workers Union Local 100 member Louis Moore, who helped maintain the signal system of New York City's transit system, was struck and killed by a train...
View ArticleThe future of immigration reform
As the U.S. Senate begins the process of considering its immigration reform bill, S 744 (The Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013), and as the House of...
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