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Reflections on New Mexicos minimum wage fight
March 10, 2006Commentary New Mexico has just gone through two major campaigns to enact a higher minimum wage law. One was a ballot referendum in Albuquerque in November 2005. The other was to pass a bill in the...
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Globalization and women workers
March 10, 2006Is the “globalization” that George Bush supports good or, at least, inevitable, as people from the capitalist class claim? And what impact has it had on women workers? Tuberculosis and malnutrition are global, and becoming more...
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WORLDNOTES
March 10, 2006Philippines: State of emergency denounced When members of the Philippine Communist Party (PKP-1930) and other mass organizations converged on Feb. 24 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, they were violently...
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ANC wins big vote in local elections
March 10, 2006The African National Congress won two-thirds of the vote in the March 1 local elections in South Africa, handily defeating its closest rival, the Democratic Alliance, which won 16 percent. The Inkatha Freedom Party won 8...
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Calif. gov fighting uphill battle
March 10, 2006Despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to reinvent himself as a moderate, California’s voters are only slightly more inclined to re-elect him than they were on the eve of his historic drubbing in the November 2005 special...
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