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  • Aaron Cohen: Educator, organizer

    Aaron Cohen: Educator, organizer

    January 16, 2004

    Longtime Communist leader, educator and union organizer Aaron Cohen died Dec. 12 at the Oakland retirement community where he had lived in recent years. He was nearly 95 years old. A CPUSA National Committee member for...

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  • Whats wrong with no-match letters

    Whats wrong with no-match letters

    January 16, 2004

    Opinion Last week, President Bush announced a vague plan to deal with the 8 to 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. The plan has been denounced because it fails to guarantee what SEIU Executive...

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  • Sports, politics, and organizing

    Sports, politics, and organizing

    January 16, 2004

    Opinion The review of Lester Rodney’s book, “Press Box Red,” (PWW 11/22-28/03) evoked memories. I was a high schooler when I was invited to participate in two activities sponsored by the New Haven, Conn., Young Communist...

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  • Bush launches a dangerous space policy

    Bush launches a dangerous space policy

    January 16, 2004

    Opinion George W. Bush made a major space policy announcement at NASA headquarters on Jan. 14, including establishment of permanent bases on the moon and an aggressive program to take humans to Mars. Estimates for these...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    January 16, 2004

    Attack on labor studies Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has just terminated the funding for the University of California Institute for Labor and Employment, a new and vital center for labor education and strategic planning, using the California...

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