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Labor mobilizes votes for health care bill

The AFL-CIO Executive Council voted March 18 to support the Senate-passed health care bill, despite all its flaws.

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With health care street heat, progressives blunt teabaggers

Eyewitness report from a raucus demonstration on health care reform in Columbus, Ohio.

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Billy Bragg inspires hope and change at farmworker fest

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- The Harvest of Hope, an event to help migrant workers, was held here in St. Augustine, Fla., over the March 13 weekend.

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No pat hands in politics

For more than a decade, the Communist Party USA has been reconfiguring the way we work and develop our analysis.

Krugman's attack on China

We must find the mix of policies that accommodates rising incomes for both Chinese and American workers - a trade war with China is no answer.

American Idol disappoints, so far

There is truly something missing on American Idol this year.

Obama school plan has pluses but big minuses, teachers and others warn

The administration's  education "blueprint" discards some of  the No Child Left Behind law's much-criticized features, but keeps or adds others that teachers, their unions and other public school advocates oppose.