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Today in labor history: Joe Hill executed
November 19, 2014On November 19, 1915, labor leader and songwriter Joe Hill was executed in Utah on what many believe was a framed charge of murder.
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Spanish Civil War vet Almudever is as lively as ever at 95
November 18, 2014Fighters and Friends of the Spanish Republic welcomed one of the very last International Brigade survivors, Joseph Almudever.
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Today in labor history: Atlanta workers engage in sit-down strike
November 18, 2014Workers at the General Motors plant in Atlanta, Georgia participated in a sit-down strike, which was part of a greater ongoing wave of labor organizing during the 1930s.
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Today in labor history: Freedom of the press
November 17, 2014On this date, Nov. 17, 1734, New York printer and journalist John Peter Zenger (1697-1746), a German immigrant, was arrested.
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French CP condemns action to eliminate Ukrainian Communist Party
November 14, 2014This follows the shameful declarations of Ukraine's president advocating the elimination of the Communist Party of the Ukraine in elections.
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