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Why the shift to a socialist market economy?
July 11, 2003In the mid-1970s, a system-wide noncyclical economic crisis of the planned economies of the USSR and the European socialist countries began to appear. This crisis was unlike the cyclical crises of capitalist economies. It expressed itself...
Read moreUAW sets national priorities
July 11, 2003DETROIT – “The only time I’m going backward is when I’m in my car backing out of a parking spot,” said United Auto Workers President Ron Gettlefinger at a press conference at the union’s Solidarity House,...
Read moreBuilding community the union way
July 11, 2003How do you fight diabetes by kissing a pig? Midge Collette, the president of Amalgamated United Auto Workers Local 292 in Kokomo, Ind., knows. After the members of her union, who build auto parts at the...
Read moreEmily Wachsmann went to Palestine
July 11, 2003Emily Wachsmann went to Palestine on July 1, but she didn’t want any advanced publicity. She plans to work four weeks with the International Solidarity Movement – an organization that asks “internationals” to aid the war-weary...
Read moreTulia victims released from jail
July 11, 2003AUSTIN, Texas – All Joe Moore wanted to do after being freed from a Texas prison on June 16 was to go home, eat some barbecued ribs, and take a hot bath. Moore, 56 and suffering...
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