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EDITORIALS
February 4, 2005A new opportunity to end the occupation We aren’t surprised that George W. Bush — who got into the White House by trampling on fair and free elections — is trying to use the Iraq elections...
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Underground Railroad
February 4, 2005ST. LOUIS — The history of slavery and racism is a horrible, shameful part of American history. It is a scar on the face of the ideals that our democratic nation holds dear. Before the Civil...
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Pages from workers lives Love and union
February 4, 2005Love and union The merger last summer of the Union of Needletrade, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees was the reflection of an earlier “merger” which took place on a...
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Policy wonks project key health care issues
February 4, 2005A year-end report from the Commonwealth Fund highlights core, mainstream health care issues. These, in turn, show some key points of struggle in 2005.
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The myth of capitalist efficiency
February 4, 2005The Great Depression shattered the myth that capitalism—a for-profit market economy—constituted a fail-safe, efficient system of economic organization. Before the Great Crash and the free fall of the world economies (excepting the Soviet Union), orthodoxy insisted...
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