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Big rail strike rocks Germany
November 20, 2007BERLIN — 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
November 17, 2007MOSCOW – 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
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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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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