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BOOK REVIEW: Four centuries of U.S. working-class literature
November 16, 2007In his poem “A Worker Reads History,” Bertolt Brecht wrote: Who built the Seven Gates of Thebes? The books are filled with kings. Was it kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? In the last...
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Largest Veterans Day parade goes to Phoenix
November 16, 2007The Veterans Day parade in Phoenix, Ariz., claims to be the largest in the country. It certainly was long and well attended. Among the floats in the parade was one from Veterans for Peace, an organization...
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Harrington Cartoon: Military spending
November 16, 2007As PWW cartoonist David Baldinger recovers from his surgery, we continue to run historic cartoons from our archives. This one by Ollie Harrington, who drew for the Daily World, shows the rising cost of military spending...
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Who is a patriot?
November 16, 2007I attended the United for Peace and Justice demonstration in New Orleans on Oct. 27, which called for an end to the Iraq war, opposed military aggression against Iran and supported the long overdue rebuilding of...
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EDITORIAL: Pilgrims without papers
November 16, 2007Three hundred and eighty-six years ago a group of undocumented immigrants and native-born Americans feasted together for three days to celebrate a successful harvest made possible by mutual cooperation. Yes, those Pilgrims showed up in Massachusetts...
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