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  • Living wage offers ray of light for homeless

    Living wage offers ray of light for homeless

    May 20, 2005 By Maurice Martin

    A labor-community coalition in Albuquerque, N.M., is involved in a campaign to adopt a living-wage ordinance in the city. This article summarizes Martin’s remarks at an April 24 conference, organized by the New Mexico People’s Weekly...

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  • Class struggle and activism still on partys agenda

    Class struggle and activism still on partys agenda

    May 20, 2005

    In their recent op-ed article, “Upholding theoretical foundations,” (PWW 5/14-20), readers Walter Tillow, Greg Godwin and Thomas Kenny take Communist Party USA National Chair Sam Webb to task for “[apparently retreating] from the theoretical foundations of...

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  • I am guilty of believing this war is illegal

    I am guilty of believing this war is illegal

    May 20, 2005

    This is an abridged version of the statement made by Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes during his military court-martial in San Diego, Calif., on May 12. Although Paredes was found guilty of refusing to board...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    May 20, 2005

    Swords into ploughshares Aside from owning the means of production, what can be done to provide employment for the millions of unemployed and underemployed — victims of corporate globalization and this frantic hunt for the lowest...

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  • EDITORIAL: Cant cede an inch

    EDITORIAL: Cant cede an inch

    May 20, 2005

    fil·i·bus·ter: n. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action. No one wants to be accused of being an “obstructionist.” Unless you are obstructing a devastating action that will...

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