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Thousands of L.A. teachers march to stop budget cuts
On Jan. 29, Los Angeles teachers took to the streets to protest draconian state budget cuts on education and attacks…
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San Francisco teachers protest budget cuts
Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in front of San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday, Feb 3, to protest the budget cuts…
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PSL candidate for L.A. mayor: ‘Stop the attacks on union teachers!’
On Jan. 29, Carlos Alvarez, PSL candidate for Los Angeles mayor, marched in solidarity with the United Teachers Los Angeles…
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Chicago teachers, unions, families fight assault on education
On Jan. 28, members of Chicago ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) joined more than 1,000 union…
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Greek farmers continue struggle against government’s policies
On Feb. 2, about 1,000 Greek farmers and their supporters were prepared to drive tractors and agricultural vehicles through Athens…
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California government shows its true colors amid budget crisis
California, like much of the country, is in the midst of a deep economic crisis. The unemployment rate climbed to…
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Economic crisis blamed for grisly murder-suicide
An entire Los Angeles family is dead following an apparent murder-suicide committed by Ervin Lupoe, husband and father of five.…
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South Africa faces growing political turmoil amidst deepening inequality
In South Africa, 2009 has begun much like 2008 ended: with intense political turmoil on top of dire social conditions.…
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Army suicide rates highest ever recorded
According to statistics released by the U.S. Army, branch personnel committed suicide at a rate of 20.2 per 100,000 in…
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Mass layoffs steal workers’ livelihoods to bolster profits
In the last week of January, the number of people collecting unemployment hit a record high of 4.78 million. That…
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More than two million protest anti-worker policies in France
On Jan. 29, over two million people took to the streets of France to protest the anti-worker policies of the…
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School segregation at highest level in decades
The legal segregation of U.S. public schools was supposedly halted in 1954 by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education…
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Nepal’s Prachanda bans dowries, caste discrimination
On Jan. 25, Nepalese Prime Minister Prachanda gave a national speech addressing the need to combat inequalities and injustices that…
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A hero’s welcome
Thanks to an urgent campaign launched by his supporters, Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was recently transferred back to…
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Liberation Volume 3, Issue 3
Volume 3, No. 3: A Foreign Policy in the Service of Imperialism On the cover Jan. 20 marked the inauguration…
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Bolivian masses victorious in battle for new constitution
Bolivian voters have approved a new national constitution drafted under the direction of the government of President Evo Morales. The…
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Why We’re Marching on the Pentagon
We are organizing a Mass March on the Pentagon on Saturday, March 21, and it is important that you and…
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Nashville voters reject racist English-only measure
The people of Nashville, Tenn., have resoundingly defeated a broad-based campaign to spread bigotry, intolerance and divisiveness. On Jan. 22,…
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Palestine teach-in stresses the need for continued struggle
A mass wave of protests across the globe met the U.S./Israeli war on Gaza. Thousands of people who had never…
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Microsoft hops on the layoff bandwagon
For the first time in its 34-year history, Microsoft Corp. plans to lay off up to 5,000 employees, about 5…
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