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Singer Natalie Merchant on side of peace, labor
April 30, 2004Music Review Natalie Merchant fans well understand her intense commitment to peace and social justice. Most of her albums contain one or two songs that reflect where she stands. But on her latest CD, “The House...
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Uncovering the truth about Reds and unions
April 30, 2004Book ReviewLeft Out: Reds and America’s Industrial Unions By Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin Cambridge University Press, 2002, Softcover, 392 pp., $27 Now that conventional wisdom says the Communist Party and communism are “dead,” serious research...
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Rethinking World War II
April 30, 2004Opinion When World War II ended, most Americans realized the enormous contribution that the Soviet Union had made to the victory over fascism. In the two years before the D-Day invasion (June 6, 1944), they had...
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Students, parents and teachers: March vs. education cuts
April 30, 2004SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Fifty students, parents and teachers spent their spring break marching from San Pablo to Sacramento in a “March 4 Education” to dramatize the financial plight of the West Contra Costa County School District....
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International notes
April 30, 2004Colombia: Coke unionist’s family killed On April 20 armed men entered the home of the brother-in-law of Coca-Cola union leader Efrain Guerrero, in Bucaramanga, site of one of Coca-Cola’s bottling plants. They killed Efrain’s brother- and...
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