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Young progressive elected to Calif. school board
December 16, 2005As California rejected its governor’s anti-labor propositions in November, Shane Brinton, a student at College of the Redwoods and member of the Young Communist League, was elected to the Northern Humboldt Union High School Board. The...
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Aussie CP hits racism
December 16, 2005In the wake of several days of rioting that involved thousands of white youths attacking people of Middle Eastern descent in suburban Sydney and at least two other Australian cities, the Communist Party of Australia issued...
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A Cuban tribute to New Orleans: New composition is powerful musical prayer
December 16, 2005HAVANA — Legendary jazz pianist Chucho Valdés pays tribute to the people and music of New Orleans in a new composition titled “Canto a Dios” or “Song to God.” The world-renowned musician said he wrote his...
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Art, truth and politics
December 16, 2005The following is excerpted from British playwright Harold Pinter’s speech accepting the Nobel Prize for literature, delivered by video in Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 7. The speech is a hard-hitting indictment of the Iraq war and occupation...
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Talking about socialism in Detroit
December 16, 2005Some of you might think that a discussion of socialism is premature — an example of being out of sync with the times. After all, since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, we have been...
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