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International notes
February 6, 2004Canada: Wal-Mart workers organize Workers at the Wal-Mart store in Jonquiere, Quebec, are battling to make their store the retail giant’s first unionized outlet in North America. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union says more...
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Northern Ireland Racism spiraling out of control
February 6, 2004News Analysis “Race crime shock – attacks now averaging nearly one a day.” This front-page headline in the Belfast Telegraph sent shivers down many observers’ spines last month. It came just a few days after a...
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2005 budget feeds beast
February 6, 2004News Analysis Military contractors Boeing and Northrop Grumman were the big winners in the $2.4 trillion budget presented to Congress Feb. 2 by George W. Bush. The proposed budget is a financial blueprint for disaster in...
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Conference says: Defeat Bush in 2004!
February 6, 2004NEW YORK – Responding to the call to “Build unity to take back our country in 2004 – Defeat Bush and the Ultra-Right,” about 300 people packed the Communist Party’s Winston Unity Auditorium here Jan. 31....
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Grocery unions call for arbitration
February 6, 2004Presidents of the seven locals of striking and locked out Southern California grocery workers appeared in simultaneous press conferences in Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Palm Desert and San Diego on Feb. 4 making public a joint letter...
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