International
Marching to Miami: Stop the FTAA!
October 24, 2003PITTSBURGH – As far as working families are concerned, nothing good came out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The Economic Policy Institute estimates that NAFTA has cost 765,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs since 1993....
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$87 billion for war: senseless & reckless
October 24, 2003Congress voted to approve the Bush administration’s $87 billion package for the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, but not without vocal and sometimes vehement opposition by lawmakers and peace activists. Mindful of the costs...
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International notes
October 23, 2003South Africa: Bram Fischer reinstated The South African Communist Party last week welcomed the posthumous reinstatement of Abram (Bram) Fischer as an attorney. Fischer, a leading SACP member, was disbarred and imprisoned by the apartheid regime....
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Solidarity urged for S. Korean unionists
October 23, 2003Unionists seeking to organize South Korean construction workers are facing a concerted campaign of harassment including “unwarranted and unjust” police investigations of the organizing drive, the Korean Federation of Construction Industries Union (KFCITU) said in a...
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Letter from Moscow: Russians fight to restore democracy
October 23, 2003MOSCOW – October 4th marked the 10th anniversary of the storming of the Russian White House, the building that used to house the Soviet parliament. On this day in 1993, the city of Moscow erupted as...
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