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People’s World wins 13 Labor Media Awards for 2020 December 21, 2020 4:15 PM CDT
The International Labor Communications Association has announced the winners for the 2020 Labor Media Awards. People’s World was honored this year with 13 awards. The articles below took home prizes in various categories.
I bring up this tired old cliché because of its applicability to the Parentis, father and son. The father, Michael Parenti, is a hardcore Communist activist who wrote for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) theoretical journal
Political Affairs among other CP publications. He is the author of 23 books (some used as college texts) and countless more articles. His specialized area of focus is on the structural class conflict of capitalist society and power. His communist affiliations were written up in the pioneering study book,
Covert Cadre” Inside the Institute for Policy Studies by S. Steve Powel, Green Hill Publishers Inc. The son, Christian, is a correspondent for
Attack on women and LGBTQ rights
Rules assisting working-class women were also set aside. Trump rescinded the “2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order President Barack Obama had put in place to ensure that companies with federal contracts comply with 14 labor and civil rights laws.”
The rule covered two issues affecting women workers: paycheck transparency and forced arbitration clauses for sexual harassment, sexual assault, or discrimination claims.
The paycheck transparency rule addressed the problem that out of the 50 worst wage-theft violators that the Government Accountability Office examined between 2005-2009, 60% had been awarded federal contracts even after being penalized by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. The rule barred the granting of federal contracts to companies involved in wage theft.
a Perdue advertisement said.
When fact checking this claim we went directly to the source. When speaking with the Communist Party USA, we were told the claim is wrong. The Communist Party neither endorses nor donates to candidates of other parties, Roberta Woods, a spokesperson for the Communist Party USA said.
As for the claim about Ossoff s business ties to the Chinese Government. Senator Perdue s ads point to a business transaction from Hong Kong.
Although the business transaction did take place, the company in question is a public company who paid for licensing of a documentary from Ossoff s company.
Jon Ossoff is the CEO of the media production company, Insight TWI.
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With Trump’s defeat, the country stands on the threshold of a new political period. One phase of the anti-right struggle, the battle for the presidency and Congress, is almost complete. Another phase, the struggle for the soul of the nation, is now taking shape.
Things are shifting, albeit slowly, even dangerously, but overall in a better direction. The Supreme Court’s apparently unanimous one-sentence refusal to hear the GOP’s challenge to the Pennsylvania vote was an important nudge forward.
Trump and company are now on the defensive and attempting to regroup by challenging the very legitimacy of the election. Some 80% of Republicans have taken the bait. With an eye toward the GOP base and fearing Trump’s wrath, only 28 Republican members of Congress so far have acknowledged that there’s a president-elect, a pressure sure to impact current negotiations for a stimulus to say nothing of their attitude toward the new administration.