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Lucy Flato, labor activist, writer

January 23, 2004

Lucille Burman Flato died peacefully Jan. 7 in San Francisco, of complications from a massive stroke. Born in Oakland, Calif., on Sept. 21, 1922, to Daisy Whitney and Frank Burman, Lucy Flato moved to New York...

Letters

January 23, 2004

Voting machine story on target Barbara Jean Hope’s Jan. 17 commentary, “Who is counting your vote? Diebold & Bush vs. the public interest,” is both timely and alarming. I have been watching for years the increasingly...

Editorials

January 23, 2004

Under the cover of darkness One thing George Bush wasn’t bragging about in his State of the Union Address was his cowardly use of an obscure parliamentary gimmick to secure the promotion of notorious racist Charles...

Japanese Communists adopt new program

January 23, 2004

ATAMI, Japan – Approximately 1,000 delegates representing 400,000 members of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), meeting here at the party’s 23rd congress, voted Jan. 17 to adopt the party’s revised program and a resolution outlining its...

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...