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An embrace of solidarity, from Louisville to Havana
April 20, 2007Henry Wallace Brigade spotlights Cuba’s quest for equality, LGBT rights and Afro-Cuban empowerment In late December 2006, 26 Kentuckians from the Louisville area traveled to Cuba to learn about the country for themselves and to build...
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Miners unity wins contract
April 20, 2007PITTSBURGH — At a time when strikes are measured in months, concessions are the beginning of negotiations, and it takes years for new union members to get the company to talk to them, coal miners at...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
April 20, 2007Injustice doesn’t taste right Fifty people picketed the Harris Teeter grocery store in Greensboro, N.C., March 31 to protest the sale there of items “packaged with abuse” at Smithfield Packing’s Tar Heel plant. The plant, the...
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Crisis of capitalist globalization
April 20, 2007“The nation-state ... is being squeezed on the one side by the forces of global economics and on the other side by political demands for a more democratic distribution of power reflecting global economic and political...
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Big money vs. workers rights
April 20, 2007The phenomenal rise of the multi-million-dollar union-busting industry in the U.S. has paralleled the decline in the manufacturing base, the rise of the right wing and the decline in union membership of the past 30-some years....
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