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U.S. secretly built “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest

April 3, 2014 By Desmond Butler And Jack Gillum

The U.S. built a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks.

SEIU’s Henry: Unions need new approaches to attract youth

April 3, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The nation's unions need new approaches to recruit and retain younger workers, Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry says.

Unions, small farmers mobilize in Paraguay under U.S. eye

April 2, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Paraguayan labor federations and small farmer organizations launched a general strike on March 26. Some 90 percent of workers in Asuncion honored the strike.

Union leader calls Ryan budget a monster out to maul government workers

April 2, 2014 By Special to People’s World

"What's another term for an insatiable monster hell-bent on savagely devouring everything in its sight? The Ryan Budget."

French municipal elections: Voters stay home, socialists trounced, right surges

April 2, 2014 By Emile Schepers

The right wing Union for a Popular Movement declared victory and the far right National Front surged.