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Global labors forgotten plan to fight the Great Depression
March 20, 2009Original source: In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public...
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COMMENTARY: Obama’s budget could do more for single moms
March 20, 2009Original source: (WOMENSENEWS)--President Obama says we are entering a new era of financial responsibility. Single mothers have always done more with less; they know all about that. But economic solutions rarely focus on how to help...
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Egypt reopens border with Gaza for two days
March 20, 2009Cairo, Mar 18 (Prensa Latina) Egypt reopened its Rafah border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Wednesday for two days to enable students and the sick to move in and out, and Jordan sent 227 tons...
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France: From one general strike to the next
March 20, 2009Translated by Isabelle Metral (l'Humanite) The Grenoble area, at the center of the old province of Dauphiné, is up in arms in preparation for the general strike called on March 19th by all trade unions, and...
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Lipton Tea’s profits and provocation in Pakistan
March 19, 2009Unilever Pakistan management has stepped up its aggression against the workers at its Lipton/Brooke Bond tea factory in Khanewal, Pakistan. The plant - Unilever's last directly-owned and operated tea plant in a nation of tea drinkers...
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