The General Baker Institute held its 4th annual General Baker, Jr., Tribute at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American history in Detroit on September 6. The Institute ...
These are the words of General Gordon Baker on Labor Day, September 5, 2004. General Baker, who died in 2014, was a beloved internationally known labor leader and Detroit auto worker. He loved and fought for the working class.
As the People’s Tribune was going to press, we received word that, after a prolonged illness, Comrade General Baker had died. As an internationally known and respected ...
A victory for the movement against police brutality was won in a lawsuit against the City of Detroit. The settlement means that a federal court will rule that the City of Detroit and the Detroit Police Department violated the constitutional rights of protestors during the George Floyd uprising of 2020.
“We blocked all the doors (and eventually the parking lot) of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) headquarters, plus surrounded ...
A loved and respected revolutionary, General G. Baker, died in May 18, 2014 in Detroit, MI. The vision of a new world of peace and freedom crowned the struggles led by General. Here, Marian ...
A democratic society means that everyone, including the poor, has a say in how our lives are lived and workplaces organized. It’s a society in which the homeless aren’t criminalized, the health of workers is protected, and people are treated with dignity by a government of their choice.
In the early 1900s, the US government carried out a wholesale assault against American socialists, and this was among the factors that caused serious and lasting setbacks in the efforts to enact reforms like universal health care. Historically, both here and abroad, significant advances in health and welfare have often been spearheaded by socialist parties
On this page you’ll find videos containing stories of people fighting repression and struggling for what they need to survive, and also different people’s...
This is dedicated to deaths of Lori Carter, age 57, Jassmine McBride, age 30, Mary J. Watson, age 43, along with scores of others who fell victim to the toxic ...
In this edition of the People’s Tribune In Depth series, we’ll look at the fight going on around water. Since none of us can live without water, this is one of the key questions confronting humanity today: Will clean water be considered something that every person has a right to have, regardless of ability to pay, or will it be a commodity to be sold for profit and denied to those who can’t pay?
Nine months after weekly protests at the North Carolina Legislature, the Moral Monday/Forward Together Movement is in motion again. Last year, 940 people were arrested. They were outraged ...
