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Workers witness Venezuelas Bolivarian Revolution
December 10, 2004In late November, Chicagoans Beatrice Lumpkin and her husband Frank, a retired steelworker leader, traveled to Venezuela. The mountains of Venezuela rise steeply out of the warm Caribbean Sea. We drink in the startling beauty of...
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Social Security under Bush attack: Your parents will be living with you!
December 10, 2004As long ago as the early 1930s, through the Townsend movement and other efforts, our parents and grandparents (and a few of us) fought for a pension plan for people 65 and older. The U.S. was...
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Cuba: 20 years of family doctors
December 10, 2004When revolutionaries change the changes that came with revolution, that’s a “revolution within a revolution.” That’s how a director of the World Health Organization described Cuba’s turn 20 years ago to “comprehensive general medicine.” The Cuban...
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When does 2+2 not equal 4?
December 10, 2004In capitalist schools, we are taught that two plus two always equals four. But Marxism, and science in general, points to a different, more dynamic result, one that more accurately reflects reality. The difference can help...
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Strike ballots go to United flight attendants
December 10, 2004Strike authorization ballots were mailed Dec. 2 to 21,000 flight attendants at United Airlines, setting the stage for a potential nationwide “CHAOS” strike should United or any other contracted carrier abrogate its collective bargaining agreement with...
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