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Parents fight Jebs biased test

July 11, 2003

At least 43,000 third-graders and 12,000 high school seniors failed the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) this past May, triggering an angry protest movement by parents, students, and their supporters demanding that Gov. Jeb Bush suspend...

Kucinich vows to challenge monopolies

July 4, 2003

ELGIN, Ill. – On June 21, Dennis Kucinich took his campaign for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party into the home territory of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, one of George W. Bush’s closest allies. Speaking...

Black Radical Congress charts course

July 4, 2003

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – The Black Radical Congress (BRC) brought together 200 activists at Seton Hall University during the weekend of June 20-22 to discuss “War, Racism and Repression: Confronting the U.S. Empire.” There was full...

The power behind the tax cuts

July 4, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

In a brief period of two years, the right wing ideologues who control the federal government have been able to ram trillion-dollar tax cuts through Congress in 2001 and again in 2003, reduced a budget surplus...

CPUSA leaders chart anti-Bush fightback

July 4, 2003

NEW YORK – An upbeat, fighting spirit dominated the June 28-29 meeting of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA. Fresh from picket lines, demonstrations for peace and justice, and day-to-day work in unions and...