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Long denied their rights, domestic workers find their voices

WEST MILFORD, N.J. — She came from Guatemala and landed a job as a live-in housekeeper here. Her workday started at 5:30 a.m. and ended at midnight, seven days a week. She cooked, cleaned, watched children,...

Bush spying OK by McCain

Sen. John McCain has long posed as a critic of President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping of phone calls and e-mails of millions of law-abiding citizens. As recently as last November he proclaimed that “private companies that provide...

The Peoples Weekly World got it right

How did the corporate media get the Iraq war so wrong? This is a question that has resurfaced with former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan’s new book “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s...

Colorado and around the U.S.: Workers hit streets vs. Big Oil & McCain

Unions begin big election effort

Targets include South, Midwest and ‘Ohio, Ohio, Ohio’With the primary season over, labor is wasting no time jumping into the fall campaign. The 10-million-member AFL-CIO is expected to endorse Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee,...