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Police beating of Black honor student in Pittsburgh still unresolved
Pittsburgh community members and activists met April 6 to plan further actions to protest the brutal beating of Black honor…
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Teachers, students and other advocates rally for public education in Washington, D.C.
On April 10, public education advocates from all over the United States gathered for a rally and march in Washington,…
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The new START agreement raises false hopes
On April 8, Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Prague. In…
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PSL campaign wins thousands of votes for socialist platform in Long Beach
The writer served as campaign manager for the PSL Stevie Merino campaign for Mayor of Long Beach. On Tuesday, April…
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China documents U.S. human rights violations
Hardly a week passes in the United States without some front-page news story about how horrible the government of China…
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Public outcry reverses denial of life-saving treatment for young mother
Leukemia patient Diana Smith of Miami was to receive a bone-marrow transplant on April 13 paid for by her Universal…
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Congress votes to end debate on bill to ease pain of unemployment
The U.S. capitalists have seen a silver lining in this dark cloud they named the Great Recession from the very…
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Rally protesting emergency law repressed in Cairo
On April 6, Egyptian security forces blocked the streets of downtown Cairo in an attempt to prevent pro-reform and pro-democracy…
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West Virginia mining disaster exposes criminality of coal boss
The recent mining disaster April 5 in West Virginia, which claimed the lives of 29 miners, was the result of…
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One drop in a sea of blood
The statement below was authored by Michael Prysner, an Iraq war veteran and co-founder of March Forward!, an affiliate of…
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Genetic ancestry testing based on junk science
Millions of Americans have been watching Henry Louis Gates' new PBS show Faces of America . On the show, Gates…
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Vote April 13: Stevie Merino for Mayor of Long Beach!
* * * Please forward widely * * * Tomorrow, April 13, Long Beach has a chance to break out…
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Postmaster general proposes huge cuts in postal services
Postmaster General John Potter recently sent a proposal to Congress for permission to end Saturday mail delivery. He claims that…
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March on Washington reflected new upsurge in the immigrant rights movement
Without question, the March 21 immigrant rights march on Washington, D.C., represented a new upsurge in the movement. The estimates…
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Earthquake puts border cities in media spotlight
The author grew up in Calexico, California. Mark Twain once stated, "God created war so that Americans would learn geography."…
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Discurso pronunciado por Raúl Castro Ruz en la clausura del IX Congreso de la Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas
Compañeras y compañeros delegados e invitados: Hemos tenido un buen Congreso, que realmente se inició en octubre del pasado año…
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Maoist-led guerrillas strike blow at Indian government offensive
Some 76 paramilitary troops carrying out a government offensive against tribal peoples in the mineral-rich state of Chhattisgarh in eastern…
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Massive effort succeeds in rescuing trapped miners in China
Despite great hardship and a scenario that lacked much optimism, rescue workers saved 115 Chinese miners stranded in a flooded…
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Congress blows deadline for reparations to Black farmers
Black farmers have systematically been denied federal funding for decades because of racism. After one of the largest civil rights…
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New Jersey students fight back against school cuts
On April 1, students across New Jersey continued to protest Governor Chris Christie's proposed education cuts. The proposed cuts include…
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