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  • Wal-Mart: always low-down lies?

    Wal-Mart: always low-down lies?

    April 29, 2005

    According to a recent survey commissioned by Wal-Mart, New Yorkers overwhelmingly support the opening of Wal-Mart stores throughout the city’s five boroughs. According to Wal-Mart’s survey, most New Yorkers believe that Wal-Mart will help the city...

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  • Steelworkers convention: back to class struggle basics

    Steelworkers convention: back to class struggle basics

    April 29, 2005

    The 32nd Constitutional Convention of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) two weeks ago came at a critical time for the union and the labor movement. With 50 steel companies in bankruptcy in the last few...

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  • Young workers, unorganized and unnoticed in the era of McJob

    Young workers, unorganized and unnoticed in the era of McJob

    April 29, 2005

    With the complex internal discussion occupying the entire labor movement today, I can’t help but add another dimension to the conversation. Within the AFL-CIO, many constituency groups are valiantly fighting for the interests of women, people...

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  • Communists make key points on racism

    Communists make key points on racism

    April 29, 2005

    Racism, the Communist Party’s draft program tells us, has some new features and new modes of operation (though more study is needed), but it doesn’t lose sight of four critical insights that we have embraced and...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    April 29, 2005

    Potential allies Re: “The ‘middle class’ and the working class” (PWW 4/23-29), it is true that there is no class between the bourgeoisie (the capitalist class) and the working class. As Pat Barile’s article correctly says,...

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