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EDITORIAL: Taking back America
June 1, 2007The Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) will convene its sixth annual “Take Back America” conference in Washington, D.C., June 18. Every year for the past five years thousands of union members, peace, civil and human rights...
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EDITORIAL: Reverse unequal pay ruling
June 1, 2007The U.S. Supreme Court’s extreme right majority handed down a decision May 29 crippling the right of women workers to win justice in pay discrimination cases. The court ruled 5-4 that women have 180 days to...
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Dead last: health care quality in the U.S.
June 1, 2007A few paragraphs in the executive summary of a new report quickly reveal the brutal truth: Among the six nations studied — Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States — the...
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New Yorkers rally for affordable housing
June 1, 2007NEW YORK — “When I left New York City in the early ’80s, I paid only $150 a month in rent,” said a Jamaican-born cabdriver who participated in last week’s demonstration here against the city’s growing...
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Conference aims to grow civil rights/labor alliance
May 25, 2007The Communist Party’s African American Equality Commission will hold a conference in St. Louis on June 8-10. Jarvis Tyner, CPUSA executive vice chair, told the World that the conference is aimed at bringing party members and...
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