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Wave of resolutions reject AFL-CIO split
June 17, 2005Powerful, unanimous voices are being heard from across our nation’s labor movement. They are stating in one voice: “Unity!” Two state labor federations from opposite sides of the country — Connecticut and New Mexico — have...
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Juneteenth holiday celebrates freedom
June 17, 2005Commentary Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. The celebration marks the events of June 19 (“Juneteenth”), 1865, when Union General Gordon Grangergy read the Emancipation Proclamation...
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Struggle for immigrant rights focus of Communist Party meet
June 17, 2005TUCSON, Ariz. — Communist Party activists from across the country gathered here June 4-5 to review and update the party’s work on immigration and with immigrants. Arizona is on the front line of some of the...
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GM slashes, workers bleed
June 17, 2005The heartland of America skipped a beat June 6 when Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors, announced plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs. A few days later the corporation gave the United Auto Workers until...
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Iraq: Bushs Watergate?
June 17, 2005The “Downing Street Memo” could be the last straw, or the spark that lights a fire, for an American public fed up with the Iraq war
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