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Chicago police arrest 150 at immigration protest
November 8, 2013Leaders of faith, trade union, immigrant and community groups and elected officials were arrested this week for blocking a street, demanding an end to deportations and calling upon Republican leadership to quit blocking a vote on...
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Government shutdown pushes jobless rate up
November 8, 2013WASHINGTON - The federal government shutdown for the first half of October, imposed by tea party Republicans who refused to fund the government unless they could kill the Affordable Care Act, pushed the nation's jobless rate...
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1917 Russian Revolution: What the world has lost
November 8, 2013It has been 96 years since the Russian Revolution and 22 years since the Soviet Union, collapsed and broke into pieces, and the world lost much in that collapse.
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“Black Revolutionary” explores life of William Patterson and global freedom fight
November 8, 2013In Gerald Horne's new book, "Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle," we are privy to William L. Patterson's transformation from well-to-do lawyer to a revolutionary.
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Today in labor history: Supreme Court used Taft-Hartley Act to break a steel strike
November 7, 2013In 1947 the 81st Congress, controlled by Republicans for the first time since 1930, overruled President Truman's veto and rammed the Taft-Hartley Law through Congress, severely limited strike activities .
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