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World AIDS Day: Profit system rules while millions die
As governments around the world struggle desperately to provide treatment and care to millions of poor and oppressed people infected…
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Milton Friedman: Ideologue of capitalist ‘freedom’
Working-class and oppressed people are not likely to mourn the death on Nov. 16 of Milton Friedman (1912-2006). He is…
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Politicians fiddle, Iraq burns
In 1970, Henry Kissinger chaired the Vietnam War’s version of the Iraq Study Group (ISG). Its name was virtually the…
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Immigrant workers reinstated at Smithfield
On Nov. 16, over 1,000 North Carolina meat packers stopped work and walked out of the largest pork processing plant…
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Interview with Cuban Five attorney Leonard Weinglass
New briefs have just been filed in the appeals of the convictions of the Cuban Five. Gloria La Riva, coordinator…
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Striking janitors win contract in Houston
On Nov. 20, 5,300 Houston janitors won a contract battle against five large cleaning companies. Janitors waged a month-long, militant…
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Atlanta police kill 92-year-old Black woman in her home
On Nov. 22, narcotics police broke down the door of Kathryn Johnston’s home located in a working-class, African American neighborhood…
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Massive pro-Chávez rally in Caracas
This article first appeared in the Cuban newspaper Granma. The largest gathering in the history of Venezuela took place Sunday…
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How does New York mayor Michael Bloomberg make $1 billion per year?
On Nov. 21, the New York Sun revealed that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s net worth could be as…
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Oakland airport workers demand union rights
On Wed., Nov. 22, over 200 hundred people picketed at the Oakland International Airport demanding justice for the airport workers.…
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Racist New York cops kill groom on wedding day, fire 50 shots
In yet another racist police atrocity in New York City, three young, Black men were brutally attacked and shot 50…
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Partnership for Civil Justice settles landmark lawsuit against DC police
The Partnership for Civil Justice announced today a settlement of its landmark lawsuit against the District of Columbia and the…
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San José activists protest CIA rendition flights
Office workers on their lunch hour were somewhat startled to see a wire cage with two occupants wearing orange jumpsuits,…
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Lt. Ehren Watada to face court-martial for resisting Iraq war
On Nov. 11, the U.S. Army announced that Lt. Ehren Watada will be court-martialed for missing troop movement as well…
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Video: Gloria La Riva on Cuba and Venezuela
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Video: Brian Becker on the mid-term elections
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Book review: ‘Hegemony or Survival’ by Noam Chomsky
This article first appeared in the November 2006 issue of Socialism and Liberation magazine. In the fervor following the victorious…
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Central Bank of Cuba: Tendency for dollar’s gradual depreciation irreversible
This release from the Central Bank of Cuba was first published on Nov. 17 in Granma International . As is…
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South Africa’s parliament passes same-sex marriage bill
On Nov. 14, the South African parliament voted 230-41 to legalize same-sex marriages. South Africa becomes the fifth country in…
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Smithfield workers walk out to protest racist intimidation
In the latest development in the workers’ struggle against Smithfield Packing Company—one of the wealthiest meat producers in the world—1,000…
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