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Americans respond to State of the Union:What about jobs?
January 23, 2004George W. Bush delivered the 2004 State of the Union speech to Congress and the American people on Jan. 20, and afterwards many people asked: What Union and world was he talking about?
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Aaron Cohen: Educator, organizer
January 16, 2004Longtime Communist leader, educator and union organizer Aaron Cohen died Dec. 12 at the Oakland retirement community where he had lived in recent years. He was nearly 95 years old. A CPUSA National Committee member for...
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Arnold Becchetti, CPUSA leader
January 16, 2004Arnold Becchetti, former national organization secretary and national treasurer of the Communist Party USA, died suddenly Dec. 27 while visiting family. He was 78 years old. Arnold Becchetti served as CPUSA national organization secretary from 1974...
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Book review: Speaking of wars
January 16, 2004War Talk By Arundhati Roy Published by South End Press 2003 Softcover, 142 pages, $12 Even after I first heard Arundhati Roy speak I wasn’t sure what her politics were. I knew she had leftist perspectives;...
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Cold Mountain and my summer vacation (a review)
January 16, 2004Cold Mountain is a good movie, based on a good book by Charles Frazier. I think most reviewers missed the most important thing about the movie – it is movingly anti-war at a time when the...
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