Norman Markowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Norman Markowitz
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Opinion
The new assault on affirmative action
March 15, 2012Readers may be unaware that Communist trade unionists were pioneers in developing practical programs to integrate minorities and women into employment.
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Opinion
The voucher swindle hits New Jersey
December 5, 2011Do former officials of the Bush administration and other right-wing Republican-connected people who lead these groups have any interest in educating working class and minority students?
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Opinion
A little debt-ceiling history, and a few suggestions
August 5, 2011It was a double "hostage crisis": The right enforced party discipline on the whole GOP and then made the Democrats negotiate on its own terms.
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Opinion
Palin, Paul Revere and the rewards of ignorance
June 8, 2011Sarah Palin and her friends on the Republican right seem to have never heard of either validity or reliability.
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U.S.
“Study-in” becomes “lock-in” and a professor speaks out
May 10, 2011NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - On April 27, nine students launched a "study-in" at the office of Rutgers University president Richard L. McCormick. The students soon found themselves in a kind of "lock in" as they were...
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Opinion
“Have you left no sense of decency?”
March 29, 2011In the midst of the battle in Wisconsin, the Republican Party has revived McCarthyism to attack William Cronon, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Wisconsin.
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U.S.
New Jersey rallies to support Wisconsin workers
March 2, 2011Thousands of trade unionists rallied in front of the state Capitol in Trenton last week in solidarity with the public workers of Wisconsin.
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Opinion
Richard Wright: a great peoples artist and journalist
February 25, 2011It is time to restore Richard Wright's place fully as a major people's artist and ground breaking journalist of the 20th century.
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