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  • EDITORIAL: Health care on the agenda

    EDITORIAL: Health care on the agenda

    October 27, 2006

    From door-knockers to phone bankers to families sitting around the kitchen table, pre-election conversation reflects a deep unease with the economy. With newspaper business sections reporting declining gasoline prices, low official unemployment and a skyrocketing stock...

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  • You are the news: Readers  we need your eyes and ears

    You are the news: Readers we need your eyes and ears

    October 27, 2006

    Readers – we need your eyes and ears The newspaper of America’s working class needs eyes and ears in every workplace and every community. In the time-honored tradition of working-class journalism, the People’s Weekly World actively...

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  • CWA and Indian unions take on call centers

    CWA and Indian unions take on call centers

    October 27, 2006

    WASHINGTON (PAI) — The burgeoning thousands of call center workers in India who serve U.S. and multinational companies, and who got jobs formerly handled by U.S. unionists, are tough to organize. They need new types of...

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  • Labor movement continues to develop in China

    Labor movement continues to develop in China

    October 27, 2006

    NewsAnalysis The Communist Party of China has just ended its annual central committee meeting, vowing to rebuild and renew its public health system and other social safety nets. It also emphasized efforts to improve education and...

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  • Governor race is one to watch in Bay State

    Governor race is one to watch in Bay State

    October 27, 2006

    Massachusetts is not one of battleground states for Congress. None of the 10 representatives is in danger of losing their seat. The last GOP congressman from Massachusetts was Silvio Conte, and he was a liberal Republican...

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