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Standoff continues in Oaxaca, Mexico

September 7, 2006

After a brutal police attack against a radio and television station, a tense standoff continues in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where striking teachers and popular organizations are demanding that right-wing Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz...

AWOL soldier surrenders at Cindy Sheehans protest camp

September 6, 2006

KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — A year and a half after going AWOL before his second deployment to Iraq, a soldier surrendered at Fort Hood on Aug. 31 with a dozen war protesters by his side. Army...

Ramifications of the Lebanon cease-fire a Palestinian view

September 1, 2006

The end of the war in Lebanon will have a very strong effect on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This effect goes over and beyond the general and always correct observation that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the continuing...

Need protection from unions? Bush Department of Labor races to rescue

September 1, 2006

Anyone who feels that getting protection from their employers is taking away their “rights” will be relieved to learn that the United States Department of Labor, George W. Bush in charge, is racing to the rescue....

Class struggle is a fact, not a theory

September 1, 2006

Let me make something perfectly clear up front. Along with some powerful disagreements, I have a great deal of respect for Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees union. He and his union have made and...