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Billy Bragg and Maxine Peake: Jarama Valley/Brigadista

April 25, 2012 By Jim Jump

Jarama Valley, the song inspired by one of the key battles of the Spanish civil war, gets another lease of life on a new CD marking the 75th anniversary of the conflict.

Germany aggrieved about Günter Grass

April 24, 2012 By Victor Grossman

Günter Grass, a Nobel Literature Prize winner, causes anger and excitement with his poem "What Must Be Said". And the subject matter is war and peace.

Guinea Bissau: From Africa’s bright hope to narco state?

April 16, 2012 By Emile Schepers

Elements of the armed forces of the small West African Republic of Guinea Bissau seized the capital and arrested Acting President Raimundo Pereira and the former prime minister, Carlos Gomes Junior.

How JFK forced steel price roll back

April 13, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

It was a corporate double-cross 50 years ago that produced one of President John F. Kennedy's most famous lines.

Class struggle boils over

April 11, 2012

The work was just as dangerous and just as difficult as before, but the pay and benefits were considerably less.