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Big business drives Illinois anti-teacher bill

January 6, 2011 By Lance Cohn And John Bachtell

CHICAGO - Under the guise of "school reform," big corporate foundations, banking and speculative hedge fund investors are pulling out all stops to ram an anti-teacher measure through the Illinois state legislature.

Southern Sudan begins vote on separation

January 6, 2011 By Dennis Laumann

Voters in southern Sudan, over a one-week period beginning this Sunday as scheduled, will be choosing between unity and separation.

UK students to launch new wave of protests

January 5, 2011 By Lizzie Cocker

Students will mark Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's birthday Friday by marching on his party's headquarters, with more actions to come.

UAW plans new organizing drive with help from its friends

January 5, 2011 By John Wojcik

The United Auto Workers is launching a new drive to organize foreign-owned auto plants in the U.S., with the determined help of civil rights and other organizations.

Pete Postlethwaite gave us the great “Brassed Off”

January 5, 2011 By Bill Meyer

The great British actor Pete Postlethwaite, who died of cancer Jan. 2 at 64, starred in one of the most progressive films that came out of England in the 1990s.

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Big business drives Illinois anti-teacher bill

Southern Sudan begins vote on separation

UK students to launch new wave of protests

UAW plans new organizing drive with help from its friends

Pete Postlethwaite gave us the great “Brassed Off”