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Show Me state shows up to vote
August 13, 2004News Analysis ST. LOUIS — Voters came out in record numbers for the state’s Aug. 3 primary elections. Nearly 1.5 million Missourians voted this year, compared to 930,000 in the 2002 primaries. A big factor driving...
Read moreNo jobs, endless war: Bush has made a mess From labor to hip-hop, voters mobilize to defeat GOP
August 13, 2004CHICAGO — Eight thousand Pillowtex workers were thrown out of work a year ago when the textile giant shut its doors. Most are still out of work and will soon lose their unemployment benefits. click here...
Read morePayments to Black farmers blocked by U.S.
August 1, 2004Aggressive legal tactics by the Bush administration have deliberately undermined a landmark 1997 civil rights settlement with African American farmers, turning the claims process into another chapter in a long history of discriminatory treatment by the...
Read moreAntonio Gades dies
August 1, 2004Recognized as the greatest Spanish male dancer of his generation and an even greater choreographer, Antonio Gades died of cancer in Madrid on July 20. He was 67. Gades’ father, a building worker and communist, left...
Read moreLetters
August 1, 2004Uptown youth Recently the Uptown Club of the Young Communist League went to the Catskill Mountains for the 2nd Uptown Ideological Retreat. It was a great success. Leaders from the Communist Party led the classes for...
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