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New YCL-USA leader gets to work

June 23, 2006

Erica Smiley is looking forward to her new job as national coordinator of the Young Communist League USA. Smiley, 26, was elected at the YCL’s national convention Memorial Day weekend, succeeding outgoing coordinator Jessica Marshall, who...

NATIONALCLIPS

June 23, 2006

45 states: Hundreds of thousands honor JuneteenthWhat do Waterloo, Iowa; Littlefield, Calvert, Edinberg, Hempsted, Dallas, Corpus Christi and Galveston, Texas; Clarion, Bedford, Wilkinsburg, Williamsport and Lancaster, Pa; Elkton, W.Va.; Southfield, Mich.; Moscow, Idaho; and Senatobia, Columbus,...

Anti-Cuba excess reaches new heights in Florida

June 16, 2006

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on May 30 signed legislation prohibiting state-supported schools from using public or private funds for research trips to five nations designated by Washington as sponsors of terrorism. Cuba, of course, is one...

Ask the Communists

June 16, 2006

Q: I can’t seem to really understand Marx’s ideas on communism and what it is. To me it sounds like he is trying to say the working class should overthrow the factory owners (“bourgeoisie”), and rule...

Violence against Mexicans: a neglected part of our history

June 16, 2006

As the struggle for immigrant equality and justice is waged in the streets and heated debate fills Congress, a wave of hate crime has been unleashed upon the Mexican/Chicano community in the Southwest, a violent wave...