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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.—1,700 nurses have been on strike for eight weeks at the Robert Wood Johnson hospital complex in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In May, Rutgers University faculty went on strike with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson doctors and nurses.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.—After a year of management intransigence in bargaining, and despite mediation efforts by pro-worker Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, some 9,000 full-time and part-time faculty, including medical staffers, at Rutgers University were forced to strike, starting on the morning of April...

Rutgers University campuses went on strike on Monday, April 10, 2023, after its faculty and staff unions finally got fed up with working without a contract—a position we’ve been in since June 31, 2022.

For Women’s History Month, People’s World presents this article from the Political Affairs archives. It was first published in April 2010. From its very outset, the struggle for women’s liberation has had deep connections to the development of the socialist movement.

They're often mentioned in the same breath, but not every socialist is a communist and not every communist or socialist country operates in the same way.

The modern movement for queer liberation—or gay liberation to use the as-yet less inclusive terminology of the 1960s and ’70s—wouldn’t exist without the Communist Party USA.

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. ‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in February 17, 2021 11:42 AM CDT By Michael Berkowitz The new book Faith in the Masses includes a range of topical and biographical essays from across the Communist Party USAs first century. Faith in...