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Best Wishes for a peaceful New Year

October 22, 2002

The following is an excerpt of greetings to the Communist Party USA’s annual holiday party in New York Dec. 20. Sam Webb is CPUSA national chairman. This is a wonderful season for young and old. It...

Quecreek miners demand answers

October 19, 2002 By Conn Hallinan

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – With thousands of lives at stake and a state honeycombed with abandoned coal mines, Quecreek miners, who electrified the nation when they survived 78 hours trapped in a flooded mine, scored a small...

Romney no friend of working people

October 19, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

BOSTON – The Republican Party is pulling out all the stops in an effort to elect Mitt Romney as Massachusetts governor. Within a two-week period, both President George W. Bush and his father have made campaign...

Janitors continue fight

October 19, 2002

BOSTON – Janitors in the Boston area entered their third week of striking the office building cleaning contractors with continued picket lines, marches, demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience to call attention to their plight and...

ILWU survival at stake in Nov. 5 vote

October 19, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

LOS ANGELES – The West Coast waterfront battle is moving beyond the docks to the Nov. 5 elections as the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and giant retailers make clear their aim to destroy the International Longshore...