Labor
As nightmare scenario unfolds in one plant, auto union fights for American way of life
July 27, 2007BELVIDERE, Ill. — Pretend you’re an autoworker and you’re having a bad dream. In your dream it’s 2008, one year after the Big Three — GM, Chrysler and Ford — got away with murder in contract...
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On the draft Iraqi Oil and Gas Law
July 24, 2007To our great Iraqi people and the masses of the Iraqi working class: Iraq is rich with a variety of natural resources, in the forefront of which is the enormous oil wealth, that is the real...
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EDITORIAL: America needs a break
July 20, 2007It’s summer. The warm sun means you can put on shorts, pack your stuff and head off for a stretch at the beach, in the woods or at a resort hotel or maybe plan to have...
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Iraq Inc.: Corporate hogs feed at war trough
July 20, 2007Privatization, a strategy to eliminate public control over vital sectors of the economy, is nothing new. What is new, and perhaps more ominous, is that privatization has become the preferred method by which the Bush administration...
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We need the Healthy Families Act
July 20, 2007Worker's Correspondence Every day, hundreds of thousands of Americans who are really too sick to work trudge off to their jobs, in spite of their fevers, sore throats, headaches, sprains and strains. Hundreds of thousands of...
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