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  • Iraqi workers up against U.S. corporations

    Iraqi workers up against U.S. corporations

    July 4, 2003

    U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW), a nationwide network of labor groups, recently presented an exposé of the U.S. corporate invasion of Iraq under cover of the U.S.-British occupation. The report was presented to the Workers’...

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  • Israeli Communist leader Meir Vilner dies at 84

    Israeli Communist leader Meir Vilner dies at 84

    July 1, 2003

    Meir Vilner, veteran leader of the Communist Party of Israel and the last living signatory of Israel’s Independence Charter, died June 5 in Tel-Aviv at 84. Vilner was born in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in...

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  • U.S. wars and the Puerto Rican people

    U.S. wars and the Puerto Rican people

    July 1, 2003

    Opinion The United States took over Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898 and ruled it the same way other European powers ruled their colonies for many years – as a source of raw materials and a...

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  • Anit-immigrant wall endangers nature, too

    Anit-immigrant wall endangers nature, too

    July 1, 2003

    TUCSON, Ariz. – “The Sonoran Desert is a place of stunning beauty and provides essential habitat for a surprising number of plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth,” said Scotty Johnson, a representative of...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    July 1, 2003

    Canada: Women & unions win landmark settlement Some 100,000 women, in mostly female public sector workplaces across Ontario will get up to $414 million in pay equity funding from the provincial government under settlement of an...

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