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Editorials

February 27, 2004

End U.S.-backed bloodshed in Haiti! Haiti is in deep crisis, with so-called rebels overrunning the country’s second-largest city, Cap-Haitien, and threatening to attack the capital, Port-au-Prince, in a bid to violently overthrow the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand...

Claudia Jones Dynamic champion of equality

February 27, 2004

Claudia Jones used her brief years (1915-1964) to the fullest. She was involved with everything and everyone having to do with the rights of African descendants and women. Born in Trinidad, Jones arrived in New York...

March 4 action for health care rights

February 27, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

Jobs with Justice and hundreds of local unions, retiree groups and health care advocacy organizations, including the Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN), have set a national “Health Care Action Day” to link workers’ struggles against...

Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract

February 27, 2004

The big issue in our contract was health care, which is also the major issue in California, where 70,000 members of our union (United Food and Commercial Workers) are on strike. We took a collection in...

Chicagoans to vote on liberties, jobs, Iraq

February 27, 2004

CHICAGO – Voters in Chicago’s 49th Ward in the northside community of Rogers Park will have their say on three urgent national issues – Bush’s attack on civil liberties, a federal jobs program, and the phase-out...