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Taking a stand at School of the Americas

February 4, 2005

OPINIONAt the annual School of the Americas (SOA) protest and vigil at Ft. Benning, Ga., Nov. 21, 2004, the author and 14 others, including two minors, crossed the line onto SOA property to oppose the U.S....

EDITORIALS

February 4, 2005

A new opportunity to end the occupation We aren’t surprised that George W. Bush — who got into the White House by trampling on fair and free elections — is trying to use the Iraq elections...

Pages from workers lives Love and union

February 4, 2005

Love and union The merger last summer of the Union of Needletrade, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees was the reflection of an earlier “merger” which took place on a...

Policy wonks project key health care issues

February 4, 2005 By Phil E. Benjamin

A year-end report from the Commonwealth Fund highlights core, mainstream health care issues. These, in turn, show some key points of struggle in 2005.

The myth of capitalist efficiency

February 4, 2005 By Greg Godwin

The Great Depression shattered the myth that capitalism—a for-profit market economy—constituted a fail-safe, efficient system of economic organization. Before the Great Crash and the free fall of the world economies (excepting the Soviet Union), orthodoxy insisted...