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  • Pennsylvanians press for minimum wage increase

    Pennsylvanians press for minimum wage increase

    January 27, 2006 By Ben Sears

    The signs filling the Capitol Rotunda here told the story: “We Want Fair Wages,” “Help the Working Poor,” and “Vote Now!” For the third time in seven months a broad coalition of labor, community and religious...

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  • U.S. helps terrorists thrive in Miami

    U.S. helps terrorists thrive in Miami

    January 27, 2006

    Commentary Gerardo Hernández, one of the imprisoned anti-terrorist Cuban Five, sends a cartoon that he drew depicting a wall around the United States. Not everybody can get in. A sign says, “Anti-Cuba terrorists only.” Anti-Cuba terrorist...

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  • Young communists hold national school

    Young communists hold national school

    January 27, 2006

    Over a dozen members of the Young Communist League USA participated in a seven-day National Youth School facilitated by four leading members of the Communist Party USA here during the week of Jan. 8-14.

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  • Memorial honors labor organizer, professor Clinton Jencks

    Memorial honors labor organizer, professor Clinton Jencks

    January 27, 2006

    SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A memorial tribute here Jan. 8 celebrated the life of legendary labor organizer Clinton Jencks, who died in San Diego Dec. 15 at the age of 87. Jencks, an international representative of...

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  • Iraqs oil workers and their union, Photographs by David Bacon

    Iraqs oil workers and their union, Photographs by David Bacon

    January 27, 2006

    Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, oil workers in Basra reorganized one of Iraq’s oldest unions, faced the occupation’s prohibition on collective bargaining in the public sector, and forced U.S. contractor KBR to leave the oil...

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