Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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Baltimore crowd celebrates 100 years of the Communist Party USA
September 17, 2019A multi-racial crowd from the mid-Atlantic region celebrated the founding of the CPUSA a century ago, filling a church here with singing, poetry, and calls for the ouster of Trump.
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Ben Riskin, the Communist behind “portal-to-portal” pay
August 20, 2019He fought to win workers pay for the time it takes them to get to and from their job, but corporate-controlled Congressmen took it away.
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Scottsboro and the quiet courage of Mary Licht
August 8, 2019Licht was herself in jail when she learned of the Scottsboro Nine. “I told my co-worker that when we were released," she said, "I would secure the International Labor Defense (ILD) for their case.” She was...
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Answer Trump’s smear of Baltimore by voting him out
August 1, 2019The Baltimore Sun got it right: “Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.”
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James Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights
June 7, 2019It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.
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Victory for long term care, but sharp fight to protect rural health care
May 23, 2019It is a war on two fronts, a case of government giving with one hand and taking away with the other.
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The fighting history of Earl George, for worker rights, equality
May 22, 2019Tim Wheeler recalls the profound influence Earl George had on him and his family, as well as his great contributions to the ILWU and the Daily World.
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Boeing engineers: Company was negligent, Trump’s FAA undermined inspections
May 9, 2019The privatization of safety inspections is a classic case of Boeing assigning the fox to guard the henhouse.
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