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Tenants give 30-day notice to landlord-tied lawmakers in Albany
May 17, 2019“I’ve lived my whole life — 25 years — without a single day of housing security. I grew up in one of the worst slumlord buildings in New York City. Eviction still hovers over us every...
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Love wins in Taiwan: First in Asia to recognize LGBTQ marriage equality
May 17, 2019With just days to go before a court-ordered deadline, lawmakers in Taipei passed landmark legislation recognizing same-sex unions.
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Lessons from the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
May 16, 2019Though violently put down by the Mounties, Canadian workers proved that society could function without bosses.
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Iranian Communists rally progressive forces to prevent war
May 16, 2019The Tudeh Party noted a “worrying rise of tensions between the racist, pseudo-fascist, and reactionary Trump administration and the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
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Nazi biscuits: German cookie heiress has no guilt about using slave labor
May 16, 2019"That was before my time," Verena Bahlsen said, claiming her family's company treated slave laborer well and paid them appropriately.
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