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Americas choice: Union, yes!
March 20, 2009Why the Employee Free Choice Act will benefit the economy, democracyMost Americans are working harder than ever as the “good life” they dream about for themselves and their children slips further and further out of their...
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LETTERS
March 20, 2009Elsie Fox biography Readers might be interested in a newly-published biography of Elsie Fox, Communist Party member and labor activist from the 1930s to the present. The book, “Elsie Fox, Portrait of an Activist” is a...
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Israeli soldiers expose atrocities in Gaza
March 20, 2009JERUSALEM, Mar 19 (IPS) - Based on testimony from Israeli soldiers who took part in the recent war in Gaza, Israel is being confronted directly with the serious charge that permissive rules of engagement allowed for...
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FMLN to rebuild El Salvador
March 20, 2009San Salvador, Mar 19 (Prensa Latina) After 30 years of military and political struggle, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won last Sunday presidential elections, paving the way for building a new El Salvador FMLN...
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Zimbabwe cuts budget to make way for pro-business reforms
March 20, 2009Original source: Zimbabwe's new finance minister slashed the country's 2009 budget and announced a raft of pro-big business reforms after talks with the International Monetary Fund. Tendai Biti, who took office last month when his Western-backed...
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