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  • Striking Goodyear workers seek global support

    Striking Goodyear workers seek global support

    December 22, 2006

    CLEVELAND (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

    WORLD NOTES

    December 22, 2006

    Latvia: 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

    CPUSA leaders return from China, Vietnam

    December 22, 2006

    A 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

    Send solidarity greetings

    December 22, 2006

    Five 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

    Winds of change buffet U.S. Cuba policies

    December 22, 2006

    The 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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