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  • Bush to poor people: Drop dead

    Bush to poor people: Drop dead

    March 7, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    The latest outrage of the Bush White House is the brutal attempt to kill the 40-year-old federal Medicaid program, the health program that is the final health and safety net for the unemployed, the disabled, the...

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  • Anti-worker assaults take form

    Anti-worker assaults take form

    March 7, 2003

    AUSTIN – In Texas and at least 36 other states facing big budget deficits, activists are working to unite their forces and fight back before the state legislature enacts vicious cuts against working families. Organizers have...

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  • Marx and critics

    Marx and critics

    March 7, 2003

    In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx warned that Communism was haunting Europe. While many writers have proclaimed the death of Communism, Karl Marx continues to haunt intellectuals. Two recent articles – one in The Economist (Dec....

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  • Hotel workers fired for organizing

    Hotel workers fired for organizing

    March 7, 2003

    DETROIT – “We all signed union cards, the whole department. I thought if we stuck together, we could win. Surely they couldn’t get rid of the whole department? I was wrong,” testified Charles Hardin to the...

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  • Kill the subway fare hike with kindness

    Kill the subway fare hike with kindness

    March 7, 2003

    Worker’s Correspondence BRONX, N.Y. – It all started when my family was visiting New York. They wanted to see all the sights: Times Square, Coney Island, the Staten Island Ferry, Chinatown; so we got them unlimited...

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