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Oregonians fight to save school for the blind

SALEM, Oregon—Both visually-impaired and sighted people in Oregon are battling to block legislation now pending before the Oregon Legislature that would permanently close the 136-year old Oregon School for the Blind (OSB). “This would be horrible,...

JCP leader to Obama: Yes we can — have a nuclear weapons-free world

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on April 28 met Jim Zumwalt, charge d'affaires ad interim in U.S. Embassy Tokyo and handed him a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama calling on him to take the...

Hartmarx workers sit-in vote spreads to Rochester, NY

In a powerful rising movement to save jobs, union workers are flexing their muscle these days nationwide by voting unanimously to sit-in at factories and not let bailed-out banks decide their fate. More than 450 workers...

VIDEO Indiana USW rallies to ‘Keep it Made in America’

BOOK REVIEW The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences

BOOK REVIEW 'The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences' By John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff Monthly Review Press, 2009, 160 pagesThe economic collapse spreading through the world is being blamed on greedy American bankers who...