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  • Big rail strike rocks Germany

    Big rail strike rocks Germany

    November 20, 2007

    BERLIN — It’s the biggest labor struggle in years in Germany, and it’s not over yet. On Nov. 28 the locomotive engineers and other train personnel just closed down much of the railroad system for 62...

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  • Communists and workers of the world celebrate the Great October Revolution

    Communists and workers of the world celebrate the Great October Revolution

    November 17, 2007

    MOSCOW – Over 20,000 people marched and rallied here Nov. 7 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. The date marks the victory by the Russian working class and its peasant allies for...

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  • BOOK REVIEW: Four centuries of U.S. working-class literature

    BOOK REVIEW: Four centuries of U.S. working-class literature

    November 16, 2007

    In 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

    Largest Veterans Day parade goes to Phoenix

    November 16, 2007

    The 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

    Harrington Cartoon: Military spending

    November 16, 2007

    As 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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