National
Pressure still on for Iraq exit, despite funding deal
June 1, 2007WASHINGTON — Voicing anger that Congress approved an Iraq spending bill May 24 with no timeline to withdraw U.S. troops, antiwar activists vowed to press on with demands that the lawmakers “do what voters elected them...
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Conference aims to grow civil rights/labor alliance
May 25, 2007The Communist Party’s African American Equality Commission will hold a conference in St. Louis on June 8-10. Jarvis Tyner, CPUSA executive vice chair, told the World that the conference is aimed at bringing party members and...
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Labor, immigrant rights groups: No two-tier society
May 25, 2007The Senate-White House compromise bill on immigration reform was no sooner submitted than it ran into a storm of opposition. Thee measure was sharply criticized by key components of the immigrant rights movement. Numerous labor, Latino,...
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When the market god isnt worshipped
May 18, 2007The Republicans, the neocons, the fundamentalist right wing, all make a god of “the market.” The market is the be-all and end-all, the ultimate trump card. The market is the solution they propose for everything —...
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Faith-based emergency preparedness
May 18, 2007With Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the Walter Reed hospital scandal — maybe you thought that the incompetence of the White House had bottomed out. But ... here comes another embarrassment bubbling to the surface. While the...
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