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Nepal election won by Communist Party
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has won a landslide victory in the country’s first elections in nine years. An…
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San Francisco Chinese community protests against CNN
Members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with thousands of demonstrators from San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square in Chinatown…
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First woman to win Indy race challenges male dominance
On April 20, Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman ever to win an Indy car…
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L.A. tragedy turned into anti-immigrant weapon
Undocumented Los Angeles gang member Pedro Espinoza allegedly killed a young African American, Jamiel Shaw Jr., o n March 2…
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Pentagon forced to disclose disinformation campaign
A successful two-year lawsuit has forced the Pentagon to disclose 8,000 pages of documents. The contents reveal an extensive Pentagon…
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Shorter hours, lower wages, rising prices
According to an index maintained by the Labor Department, the hours worked by those on U.S. payrolls had dropped significantly…
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Jail killer cops! Fill the streets! Justice for Sean Bell!
Statement from PSL's La Riva/Puryear presidential campaign Jail killer cops! Fill the streets! Justice for Sean Bell! When the police…
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Jury not convinced by terrorism charges
In mid-April, the Justice Department failed to sway the jury in yet another attempt to prosecute what it calls "homegrown…
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Liberation Volume 2, Issue 10
Volume 2, No. 10: Make housing a right! On the cover: The housing crisis on the ground Mobile home owners…
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¿Eliminando el hambre?
No se necesita tener un diploma en econom??a para saber que el sistema econ??mico de EEUU est?? en una crisis…
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Human rights activist killed by Sri Lankan military
Human rights activist Father M. Karunaratnam was killed on April 20 by a roadside bomb in the Mallavi area in…
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The Columbia revolt: 40 years later
In April 1968, a student revolt erupted at Columbia University. The protests had two main goals. One, the students wanted…
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Netanyahu proclaims 9/11 attacks good for Israel
While speaking at a conference at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, former Prime Minister of Israel and chairman of…
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Bush ‘plan’ too little, too late for global warming
In an April 16 Rose Garden speech, President George Bush outlined what was purported to be a new proposal to…
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French students protest job cuts
As many as 50,000 French students held a militant demonstration in the streets of Paris on April 17 to oppose…
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PTSD, depression afflicts one in five returning soldiers
According to a recent RAND Corporation study, 300,000 troops returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or…
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Mexicans workers fight against oil privatization
Legislators of the Broad Progressive Front, a coalition of opposition parties, stormed the podiums in both chambers of Mexico’s Congress…
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Anti-war coalition tours Midwest
The ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), a national anti-war organization with offices from coast to…
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Skyrocketing fuel prices spark trucker protests
Oil prices reached a record $114 dollars a barrel on April 15. The national average price per gallon of regular…
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Egypt holds elections amidst growing unrest
On April 12, amidst a tense climate of resistance to rising food prices and the repressive U.S.-supported Hosni Mubarak government,…
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