News
No 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...
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Payments 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...
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Antonio 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...
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Letters
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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Editorials
August 1, 2004Not another Hiroshima “There were children screaming ‘It’s hot, it’s hot!’ and infants crying over the body of their mother who appeared to be already dead. I tried to pull myself together … but when I...
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