People's World

12/05/2025

People's World needs your voice – Can you help make calls? Phonathons are not just an attempt to get donations, but allow us to connect with our audience

We need you! During the week of Giving Tuesday, Saturday, November 29th – Sunday December 7th, we need volunteers to sign up for the People’s World Phonathon. During that week, we’ll be speaking with readers encouraging them to donate to the PW.

12/05/2025

Deliberate contradiction: How the West contributes to killings in Gaza. The West serves as the simultaneous judge and executioner, the violator and the self-appointed defender of human rights.

On February 29, 2024, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the House Armed Services Committee that over 25,000 Palestinian women and children had been killed by Israel in Gaza up to that date.

12/05/2025

D.C. residents blast Trump's ICE 'occupation' at hearing. They say the city is too cooperative with repression in the district

WASHINGTON—Residents of Washington, D.C., are upset and unhappy with Donald Trump’s ICE troops’ invasion, occupation, and deportations--and with their own officeholders’ cooperation with it. So a parade of 150 witnesses let the City Council know it in a day-long hearing on December 4.

12/05/2025

High Court to ponder Trump's mass firings. On Dec. 8 they deal with administration appeals of lower court rulings declaring the firings illegal

WASHINGTON—Can right-wing extremist GOP President Donald Trump fire any official at any time for any reason—or none at all—regardless of what the law says? The U.S. Supreme Court’s nine justices, six of them Republican-named, will tackle that issue on December 8.

12/05/2025

The labor movement needs a freedom agenda. Need to reject war abroad in addition to repression at home

When Zohran Mamdani spoke after his primary election victory in New York City, he declared, We can be free, and we can be fed. Mamdani is telling our unions and workers that we can reject the old politics of agreeing to war abroad and repression at home, in the hopes that at least some workers wil.....

12/05/2025

UN's COP30 busts, but the fight goes on. Indigenous groups increasingly come forward to lead in the battle against climate warming

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP30, which took place from November 10–21, 2025, in Belém, Brazil, ended recently with no mention of the fossil fuels that have warmed up the atmosphere.

12/04/2025

Pennsylvania bailed on a carbon market to appease Republicans. Governor Josh Shapiro pulled out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in exchange for a budget. Critics say he "got rolled."

Last month, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro withdrew from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI (pronounced “Reggie”), a cap-and-trade program that establishes a regional limit on carbon emissions from power plants located in the Northeast.

12/04/2025

The cowboy and the communist: Why Frank Sinatra picked a fight with John Wayne. Part of the Hollywood Ten, Albert Maltz had the "dubious honor" of being blacklisted twice when John Wayne and others in Hollywood targeted his working relationship with Frank Sinatra.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Albert Maltz had been on the Hollywood blacklist for eleven years when, in early 1959, producer Otto Preminger called to offer him a contract for the screenplay of Exodus, a potential blockbuster based on the bestselling novel by Leon Uris. Maltz was ecstatic.

12/04/2025

Top Senators expose Trump's fascist playbook. The country, say Sens. Chris Murphy and Marie Slotkin, is being transformed into a democracy in name only where even elections will be anything but free.

WASHINGTON—Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20, progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans, often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.

12/04/2025

ICE begins immigration raids inside of churches

12/04/2025

Why the labor movement backs the Target boycott. One of the purposes of unions is to bring people together regardless of their background, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. Our common bond is that we are all workers.

For a long time, Target—that popular mega-store that seemed to hit just the right combination of low prices and of-the-moment swagger—was everyone’s darling, the go-to spot for everything from groceries to electronics, clothing, kitchenware and toys.

12/04/2025

A far-right tide is washing over Latin America. Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics.

The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a toxic sweat that has spread across the region.