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Bound and dug in debt and glut
October 6, 2006Two stories roiled Massachusetts this summer. Seemingly unrelated, the two are connected by the contradictions between incalculable wealth and spreading poverty, a glut of capital and deepening individual and governmental debt, and extraordinary monopolization and growing...
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N.Y. transit strike assessed
October 6, 2006NEW YORK — Several hundred transit workers, labor activists and academics gathered Sept. 28 for a conference titled “Assessing the NYC Transit Strike of 2005.” In his welcoming remarks, Gregory Mantsios, director of CUNY’s Center for...
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WORLD NOTES
October 6, 2006Britain: Union revolt erupts at Labor Party meet Delegates at Britain’s Labor Party Conference overwhelmingly passed a motion Sept. 27 challenging a National Health Service contract with the giant German delivery company DHL that takes effect...
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Left-wing festivals showcase politics, culture
October 6, 2006ATHENS, Greece — Autumn festivals organized by Communist parties and their allied youth groups are a longstanding tradition in many European countries, especially in Greece, Portugal, Spain and, since 1991, in the Czech Republic. The festivals...
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Pressures on Bolivian leader mount
October 6, 2006Prior to a recent soccer match in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 40,000 spectators intoned the state’s hymn and then chanted “Autonomy!” They ended by shouting obscenities aimed at President Evo Morales, the recently elected former peasant leader...
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