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Baseball heroes: YCL, Daily Worker hold place in baseballs struggle hall of fame

The fight to integrate Major League Baseball has many stories and players. One that the Young Communist League can take particular pride in is the role of the Daily Worker (the “grandmother” of the People’s Weekly...

Brooklyn elections and the developers

Big cities have been the bastion of the working-class and labor movement and of the racially and nationally oppressed. Most elected officials from these cities are Democrats. Virtually all of the trade unionists, African Americans and...

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Considering The Israel Lobby

A recent article by two prominent political science professors has touched off heated debate. “The Israel Lobby,” by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard, outlines what it calls “the unmatched...

This week in labor

Meat packers win overtime pay If you work in a meat processing plant, your workday starts long before you step into your place on the line. Before you lash on your arm and hand protection, you’re...