City Council of Atlanta today approved two bills offered by Councilwoman Felicia Moore, District 9, to codify their oversight role in the Atlanta Housing Authority’s mass eviction and demolition plans for all remaining public housing.

While the race for the Democratic nomination for president has just begun, it's clear that the people, many of whom are first time participants in the process, are hungering for change and to put their mark on this election.

On December 9, 2007, in a move that went relatively unnoticed in India, seven South American countries signed an agreement that could have important implications for the dominance asserted by the IMF and World Bank in developing countries.

Sen. Barack Obama received a huge boost one day after finishing slightly behind Sen. Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary when three important union endorsements went his way.

Defying the polls and the media hype, Sen. Hillary Clinton defeated Sen. Barack Obama by three points last night in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. John Edwards came in a distant third, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Gov. Bill Richardson rounded out the pack.

It seems like yesterday that 15,000 working family voters crowded into Chicago’s Soldier Field to ask questions and hear what the seven major Democratic presidential candidates had to say about jobs, health care, workers’ rights, the war in Iraq and more.

In the buildup to the 2008 elections, the right-wing Republicans have decided to make immigrants the scapegoat for the failure of the Bush administration and the shortcomings of the capitalist system.

Unemployment worsened to 5 percent—sinking a whopping three-tenths of percentage point, from 4.7 percent in November, the largest single jump since the slowdown following Sept. 11, 2001.

Chinese President Hu Jintao said here on Monday that China attaches great importance to sustainable development and will take a series of measures to better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers.

Corn producers predicted hunger and social disaster in Mexico"s poorest sectors, due to the lifting of tariffs on corn imports from the United States and Canada, by virtue of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Though actions blocking imports of subsidized US grains ended Wednesday, rejection of the North American Free Trade Agreement keeps growing in Mexico.

The central goal of the United States is control of the planet, power to install governments subservient to its demands, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, the power to inflict on peoples everywhere “free market” corporate capitalism.

Social class is usually treated as though it doesn't exist. But for working families struggling without good jobs or adequate pay, who lack health care or decent housing, the systemic economic divisions that determine their life chances.

Robert Reich served under President Clinton as his Secretary of Labor and is proud of the fact that he served what he calls "one of the most pro-business administrations in American history."

The Venezuelan economy enters its fifth consecutive year of sustained growth in 2008, according to predictions from the Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL).

With 28% of nearly 10,000 votes cast, Smithfield Chairman Joseph Luter III narrowly beat out American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey to win the seventh annual online "Grinch of the Year" election sponsored by National Jobs with Justice.

Presidents Evo Morales (Bolivia), Michelle Bachelet (Chile) and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Brazil) agreed Sunday in La Paz to build, starting mid-2009, a 4,700 kilometer corridor uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Venezuela continues its program to help low-income US families get through the cold winter season. This year’s heating oil donation plan began Wednesday in a poor neighborhood in the US capital.

More than 500 artists, writers and scholars from the United States have signed on to a letter to President Bush requesting he put an end to the nearly half-century blockade against Cuba and stop impeding cultural exchange between the two nations.

First of all, the People’s Weekly World (which continues the Daily Worker, founded in 1924) has a very long history of what we call working-class journalism.