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  • Guatemalans hail Cuban medical workers

    Guatemalans hail Cuban medical workers

    March 4, 2004

    Alfonso Portillo, Guatemala’s last president, is hardly a political ally of Fidel Castro’s, but that didn’t stop him heaping praise on Cuba’s doctors in his farewell speech in mid-January. “As my last state duty, I didn’t...

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  • Of the people, by the people, for the people

    Of the people, by the people, for the people

    February 27, 2004

    Opinion Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, long a mouthpiece for U.S. monopoly corporations and Wall Street speculators and now a servant of the big business Bush administration, delivered an economic report to Congress recently that...

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  • Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract

    Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract

    February 27, 2004

    The big issue in our contract was health care, which is also the major issue in California, where 70,000 members of our union (United Food and Commercial Workers) are on strike. We took a collection in...

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  • Southwest, the LUV airline, is a heart-breaker

    Southwest, the LUV airline, is a heart-breaker

    February 27, 2004

    DALLAS – Flight attendants in Transport Workers Union Local 556 sent a powerful Valentine’s Day message to the bosses at Southwest Airlines Feb. 13 with informational pickets and rallies at all seven major airports served. There...

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  • Illinois  Senate race offers historic opportunity

    Illinois Senate race offers historic opportunity

    February 27, 2004

    CHICAGO – The race for the Democratic nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois has boiled down to a three-person race, according to polls. Millionaire Blair Hull has a slight lead after pouring $18...

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