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Reflections on New Mexicos minimum wage fight
March 10, 2006Commentary New Mexico has just gone through two major campaigns to enact a higher minimum wage law. One was a ballot referendum in Albuquerque in November 2005. The other was to pass a bill in the...
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Globalization and women workers
March 10, 2006Is the “globalization” that George Bush supports good or, at least, inevitable, as people from the capitalist class claim? And what impact has it had on women workers? Tuberculosis and malnutrition are global, and becoming more...
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ANC wins big vote in local elections
March 10, 2006The African National Congress won two-thirds of the vote in the March 1 local elections in South Africa, handily defeating its closest rival, the Democratic Alliance, which won 16 percent. The Inkatha Freedom Party won 8...
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S. African women helped crush apartheid
March 10, 2006The 1950s marked a turbulent period in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. At the beginning of the decade, the apartheid regime banned the South African Communist Party, a longtime, militant foe of racism and inequality....
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WHATSREALLYGOOD
March 10, 2006H.S. students honor International Women’s Day As a protest against growing attacks on women’s rights, students in Shrewsbury High School in Massachusetts have built an exhibit to honor International Women’s Day, and to shine a spotlight...
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