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Striking Goodyear workers seek global support
December 22, 2006CLEVELAND (AP) — Birgit Birgersson-Brorsson, a union officer for IF Metall in Sweden, spent an afternoon recently with strikers on a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. picket line. Wood scraps burning in a barrel helped keep...
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WORLD NOTES
December 22, 2006Latvia: Occupying powers at odds over Afghanistan At a NATO leaders’ conference held in Riga, Latvia, in early December, French, German, Italian, and Spanish delegates rejected the Bush administration’s plan to open up the organization to...
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CPUSA leaders return from China, Vietnam
December 22, 2006A Communist Party USA delegation to China and Vietnam returned to the United States on Dec. 12 with a wealth of political and cultural experiences they say they hope to share with the U.S. public in...
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Send solidarity greetings
December 22, 2006Five Cuban men — the “Cuban Five” — have been in U.S. jails for over eight years. They were seeking to expose organizers of terrorism against Cuba. The appeal process has not yet run its course....
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Winds of change buffet U.S. Cuba policies
December 22, 2006The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced recently that film director Oliver Stone and four associates would pay a $6,322 fine for traveling to Cuba. Stone’s film crew had been in Cuba in...
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