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Attacks on labor end in a whimper

June 17, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg And St. Louis Labor Tribune

The third big front in the right-wing Republican-business state-by-state war on workers, in Missouri, ended when the state legislature adjourned in May.

Iran: Turmoil at the top

June 17, 2011 By Conn Hallinan

There is a struggle between Ahmadinejad and the clerics around Khamenei, but, while it may play out in arguments over obscure religious issues, the fight is over political and economic power.

Single-payer rally “welcomes” insurance industry group

June 17, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

It's no surprise that this week's meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans, the health insurance industry's national trade association, was greeted by a "welcoming committee."

Political prisoner dies in Iran jail

June 17, 2011 By Jamshid Ahmadi

Another victim of the Iranian regime's brutal repression, hunger striking political prisoner Hoda Saber, has died in jail.

Hundreds join Congress Hotel strikers at 8th Anniversary rally

June 16, 2011 By John Wojcik

Sixty workers who have been on strike at Chicago's Congress Hotel for eight years were joined June 15 by hundreds of supporters at a rally outside the hotel.