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  • S. African women helped crush apartheid

    S. African women helped crush apartheid

    March 10, 2006

    The 1950s marked a turbulent period in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. At the beginning of the decade, the apartheid regime banned the South African Communist Party, a longtime, militant foe of racism and inequality....

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  • WORLDNOTES

    WORLDNOTES

    March 3, 2006

    Iraq: Healing the past and present The Iraqi Mobile Communist Clinic brought its medical expertise to the people in a special way on Communist Martyr Day, Feb. 14. The clinic set up shop in Baghdad at...

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  • Voices rising worldwide: Free the Cuban 5

    Voices rising worldwide: Free the Cuban 5

    March 3, 2006 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

    On Feb. 14 attorneys in the case of the Cuban Five took judges’ questions for an hour before the full 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Meanwhile demonstrations of support for Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino,...

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  • UN mulls eradication of global poverty

    UN mulls eradication of global poverty

    March 3, 2006

    UNITED NATIONS — The UN Commission for Social Development wrapped up its 44th session Feb. 17 after reviewing poverty eradication efforts over the past decade, reaffirming the Millennium Development goals and urging all countries to adopt...

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  • Forum urges probe of FBI raids in Puerto Rico

    Forum urges probe of FBI raids in Puerto Rico

    March 3, 2006

    NEW YORK — Recent tactics of the FBI, which include military-style assaults and home raids on people in Puerto Rico who favor independence — as well as the pepper spraying of journalists — have provoked public...

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