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Sudan Communists call for push against Al Bashir
November 22, 2013Grassroots protests against the despotic regime of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir continue, and the government is feeling its hold slipping.
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Iraq: The struggle for new labor and trade union laws
November 21, 2013Progress on enacting a new trade union law in Iraq is still stalled.
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Sudanese rise up against massive price hikes, repression
September 27, 2013Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and neighboring Omdurman, as well as Port Sudan and other parts of the country, are being rocked by mass protests and government repression, with the loss of at least 70 lives so far...
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Agrarian strike in Colombia triggers repression, wider struggle
September 3, 2013Angry small farmers are rejecting free trade agreements Colombia signed with the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Rrural people in Colombia are suffering.Eight million Colombians are hungry,
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Today in labor history: The murder of Frank Little
August 1, 2013August 1, 1917: After organizing a strike against the Anaconda Copper Company, Frank Little was dragged by six masked men from his Butte, Mont., hotel room and hung from a railroad trestle.
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