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Tensions continue at Mexican copper mine
April 10, 2008Tensions continue at a high level at Grupo Mexico’s largest copper mine in Cananea, in Mexico’s Sonora state. Workers represented by the Mexican National Union of Mine, Metal and Allied Workers (SNTMMSRM) have been on strike...
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Torture memo fuels calls to close Guantanamo
April 10, 2008Advocates for hundreds of detainees in George W. Bush’s “war on terror,” many held for years without criminal charges, are escalating their demands for fair trials or release of the prisoners and for closing Guantanamo and...
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Greece slashes worker pensions
April 9, 2008ATHENS — The Greek government overturned long-standing retirement benefit provisions for working people in a vote last week that will have powerful ramifications for generations to come. The new “anti-social security” measures will hit working mothers...
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Blogging from India #7 Meet the Communist governor of West Bengal
April 9, 2008COIMBATORE, India — West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and attended the party's 19th Congress here in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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Legacy of the East L.A. school walkouts
April 8, 2008Commemorations last month of the 40th anniversary of the East Los Angeles Chicana/Chicano Walkouts of March 1968 were a celebration of the process and progress of the civil and labor rights struggles of Mexican Americans. Back...
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