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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
April 20, 2007Injustice doesn’t taste right Fifty people picketed the Harris Teeter grocery store in Greensboro, N.C., March 31 to protest the sale there of items “packaged with abuse” at Smithfield Packing’s Tar Heel plant. The plant, the...
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Crisis of capitalist globalization
April 20, 2007“The nation-state ... is being squeezed on the one side by the forces of global economics and on the other side by political demands for a more democratic distribution of power reflecting global economic and political...
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Big money vs. workers rights
April 20, 2007The phenomenal rise of the multi-million-dollar union-busting industry in the U.S. has paralleled the decline in the manufacturing base, the rise of the right wing and the decline in union membership of the past 30-some years....
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WORLD NOTES
April 20, 2007Argentina: Killing of teacher sparks national protests In response to the death April 5 of chemistry teacher Carlos Fuentealba, whose head was struck the day before by a police tear gas canister, demonstrations broke out in...
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Bolivian president faces rocky road
April 20, 2007Bolivian President Evo Morales based his 2005 candidacy on two promises: first, his government would nationalize natural resources, crucially natural gas and oil, and second, he would return the government to the country’s indigenous majority through...
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