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Venezuelan unionists champion democracy
June 11, 2004NEW YORK – New York’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU) hosted a panel discussion of Venezuelan labor leaders here May 26. The delegation included leading members of the Venezuelan Transport Workers, Public Service Workers, Grain...
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Vernon Jarrett: a partisan journalistic giant
June 4, 2004Opinion Readers like me can be extremely selective of the journalists we read habitually. We do not have to agree with every word or be humored by diversionary jokes and meaningless anecdotes. We want simplicity that...
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Letters
June 4, 2004A billion here, a billion there The title to this little verse was borrowed from an excellent leaflet that was distributed at a recent demonstration. I owe a debt of gratitude to them and the demonstration....
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Editorials
June 4, 2004A recovery in profits, not wages The Bush administration must be thinking the U.S. is a nation of ingrates. The economy is humming along so nicely, they say. Why then has George W. Bush’s approval rating...
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Spanish Civil War songs
May 28, 2004Record review Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War Multiple artists, Appleseed Recordings, 2003 The songs of the Spanish Civil War are a red thread connecting the left of the 1930s to those...
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