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Iraqs workers face long road
February 6, 2004Opinion There has been a long history of trade union struggle in Iraq against colonialism and for national independence. Often, it has been a struggle simply for survival. When the monarchy was overthrown in the revolution...
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Letters
February 6, 2004Credibility gap on WMD’s David Kay’s report on the absence of Iraqi weapons programs must have landed with a thud on the president’s desk, not to mention Don Rumsfeld’s head. A humbled and bemused Kay had...
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Editorials
February 6, 2004Bush’s attack on veterans Years of training in the military could be the basis of a big pay cut for many of America’s 26 million veterans come March 1. That’s when the Bush administration plans to...
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Two forerunners in the fight for civil rights
February 6, 2004Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a famous African American athlete, singer, actor, and fighter for peace and justice. A supporter of socialism, he wrote in his autobiography, “Here I Stand,” that a socialist society is “an advance...
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Universal coverage or more of the same?
February 6, 2004The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Sciences has just released a scathing critique of the state of health care coverage in the United States and a call for universal health coverage.
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