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  • Look whos talking about the working class

    Look whos talking about the working class

    May 24, 2008

    If Marx and Engels were around today, listening to the corporate media pundits on cable and in print, they might have started their Manifesto with, “A specter is haunting the U.S. 2008 elections — the specter...

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  • Missourians triumph over anti-civil rights plan

    Missourians triumph over anti-civil rights plan

    May 24, 2008

    NewsAnalysis ST. LOUIS — Over the last few months one of the most important electoral struggles of 2008 played out in Missouri. The deceptively-named Missouri Civil Rights Initiative (MoCRI), which would have outlawed affirmative action programs...

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  • House votes challenge Bush on war

    House votes challenge Bush on war

    May 24, 2008 By Susan Webb

    Peace advocates are calling May 15 a historic day — when the House of Representatives voted “no confidence” in President Bush’s Iraq war policy passing a series of antiwar and domestic-needs measures and defeating, temporarily, additional...

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  • Peace activist runs for Congress in New Jersey

    Peace activist runs for Congress in New Jersey

    May 24, 2008

    As the June 3 state primary approaches, all eyes are on New Jersey’s First Congressional District, in the south part of the state. Last December Mahdi Ibn-Ziyad, a peace activist, declared his candidacy to run against...

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  • Where goes McCain, so goes the union

    Where goes McCain, so goes the union

    May 24, 2008

    CHICAGO — Wherever John McCain goes, despite efforts to keep his schedule under wraps, labor is there letting everyone know that his election would be a third term for President Bush. On May 19, the Republican...

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