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Letters
June 10, 2005History lesson In the 1930s, the right of workers to join unions, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, minimum wages, and the 40-hour week were enacted into law after a fierce struggle in which the Communist Party USA,...
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S. African Communists eye next steps
June 10, 2005News Analysis When the African National Congress of South Africa won a popular mandate of 70 percent of the vote in a landslide victory in 1994, following the overthrow of the racist, U.S.-supported apartheid regime, popular...
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No party, no socialism
June 3, 2005The right wing has attacked historian Moshe Lewin’s new book, “The Soviet Century,” which covers the Soviet Union from the early 1920s through its implosion in 1991, for its sympathetic treatment of Lenin. His principal conclusion,...
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Letters
June 3, 2005Educators refuse Wal-Mart Thought your readers might be interested in this note from “the far Northwest” about the campaign against Wal-Mart’s exploitive policies, which include thrusting onto taxpayers the burden of paying for healthcare for many...
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Labor Update
June 3, 2005UAW endorses Sweeney The United Auto Workers has endorsed John Sweeney for re-election as president of the AFL-CIO, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger announced May 26. Sweeney, he said, “has actively encouraged a lively, open and much-needed...
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