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  • U.S. military attacks Iraqi trade unions

    U.S. military attacks Iraqi trade unions

    December 12, 2003 By Susan Webb

    A U.S. occupation force involving 10 armored vehicles and dozens of soldiers attacked the headquarters of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions in Baghdad, Dec. 6. They arrested eight of its leaders and members, who were...

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  • Pickets cross Borders

    Pickets cross Borders

    December 5, 2003

    ANN ARBOR, Mich. – “We will stay on strike until Borders [bookstores] bargains in good faith,” say striking workers affiliated with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 876 on the picket line at Borders’ number...

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  • Corporate Americas dirty secret

    Corporate Americas dirty secret

    December 5, 2003

    “Keeping up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare,” By Vijay Prashad. South End Press, 2003, Softcover, 214 pp., $17.00. Over the years, Vijay Prashad, a professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., has established himself...

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  • A class approach to pensions

    A class approach to pensions

    December 5, 2003

    Opinion One of the proudest achievements of the U.S. labor movement, the retired worker’s monthly pension check, is in deepening trouble. Union-negotiated defined-benefit plans supposedly provide a monthly pension check for life, insured by a federal...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    December 5, 2003

    Not always farce In the Nov. 12 issue of the PWW letters section, Ken Bailey quotes Karl Marx thusly, “History repeats itself; the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Ken Bailey’s points about...

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