People's World

One of the banners put up by the Amigos Park Coalition. | Photo via amigospark.com WASHINGTON—Since 2014, residents of the Mount Pleasant community in Washington, D.C. have advocated for the establishment of a small community-controlled park adjacent to Kenyon St. and the main roadway. The piece of land has long been frequented by Latino immigrants and day laborers who play board games and gather as a community.

The toxic smoke that spread rover the city of New York was far more harmful than city and national leaders admitted when the attack took place.| AP NEW YORK—In the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacks on Manhattan and D.C., New York City officials—along with Republican President George W.

1199 president Rob Baril addreses the rally alongside Danbury Mayor Roberto Alves.| Danbury Unites photo DANBURY, Conn.—As families prepared for back-to-school days in Danbury last week, the Department of Homeland Security brought down a reign of terror on the community with massive ICE raids. Parents were taken in front of their children, at school buses and child care centers.

Fernando Cerimedo, then an 'advisor' to the National Party, points at a map of Honduras during presidential candidate Nasry Asfura's press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Dec. 1, 2025. | Moises Castillo / AP The sound of gunfire erupted outside a hotel in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the epicenter of right-wing politics in Bolivia, on the evening of Aug. 17.

(L-R) Rev. Robert Turner, Congresswoman Delia Ramírez (D-Ill.) Ms. Suzanne Adely, Mr. Felix Sharpe Caballero, and Congresswoman Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) pose.|Photo via Congressional Progressive Caucus WASHINGTON—Events on September 2 in D.C. capped intense summer work and coordination between National Network on Cuba (NNOC), Americas without Sanctions, and Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition.

Greg Kearney Greg Kearney has worked as an editorial cartoonist for over 40 years. He calls himself  “a traditional labor Democrat,” and his cartoons have appeared in publications as diverse as the Journal of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to People's World. “You may not always agree with my views but that is the whole point of editorial cartooning.” Kearney is a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

The crowd was tens-of-thousands' strong at the Avante! Festival in Seixal, Portugal this past weekend. | Photo via Avante! SEIXAL, Portugal—Hundreds of thousands of Communists, workers, youth, and their allies joined the 50th anniversary of the Avante! Festival (Festa do Avante!) from Sept. 4 to 6 in Seixal, Portugal, a suburb just outside the capital, Lisbon.

Economy actually lost 92,000 construction and other job in August.| AP WASHINGTON—The nation’s unemployment rate stayed at 4.1% in August, while the number of jobless people rose by 115,000 to 7.031 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The private sector claimed to create 127,000 new jobs while governments added 35,000, a separate survey showed. But the private sector figure is unadjusted and incomplete and in the past it’s been revised downwards.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signs an executive order establishing the Mayor’s Office of Worker Power on Labor Day, Sept. 3, 2026. | Photo via NYC Mayor's Office NEW YORK—Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked Labor Day, Sept. 7, by announcing the creation of the Mayor’s Office of Worker Power (MOWP). The new office is the first such body created anywhere in the nation.

From left, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sign a trilateral defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 7, 2026. | Saudi Press Agency via AP On Aug. 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan established a military alliance that many experts are saying could reshape power across West and South Asia.