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  • Urgent appeal to protest jailing of Iranian trade unionists

    Urgent appeal to protest jailing of Iranian trade unionists

    December 30, 2005

    Iran’s Tudeh Party announced last week that the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrested a number of leaders and key activists of the Tehran Public Bus Transportation Company Trade Union on Dec. 22-23....

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  • White-collar blues and the vanishing American dream

    White-collar blues and the vanishing American dream

    December 29, 2005

    Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream By Barbara Ehrenreich Henry Holt and Co., 2005, Hardcover, 237 pp., $24 After writing her book-length description of surviving on a minimum wage in “Nickel and...

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  • Cubas revolutionary doctors

    Cubas revolutionary doctors

    December 29, 2005

    Cuba this year graduated 1,905 new doctors. They pledged, in part, the following: “True medicine is not that which cures, but that which prevents, whether in an isolated community on our island or in any sister...

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  • The downward cycle of the U.S. economy

    The downward cycle of the U.S. economy

    December 28, 2005

    “Free traders are resurrecting class war, not because they are Marxists but because they confuse free trade with global labor arbitrage. ... Committed to a 200-year-old theory that they no longer understand, free traders are cheering...

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  • An antidote to disinformation about North Korea

    An antidote to disinformation about North Korea

    December 28, 2005

    North Korea: Another Country By Bruce Cumings The New Press, 2004 Softcover, 241 pp. $15.95 Bruce Cumings, a history professor at the University of Chicago and a former Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea, has given...

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