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Mott’s workers continue 2-month strike against wage cuts
Workers at a Mott's plant in Williamstown, N.Y., have been on strike for nearly a month and a half over…
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Studies show that long-term unemployed skew unemployment statistics
Capitalist economists have touted a drop in the official unemployment figures as signs of the "economic recovery." Yet, recent studies…
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Documents prove U.S. government involvement in 1971 Bolivia coup
The United States has a long history of undermining democratic pro-people's movements across Latin America. In its quest to protect…
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LGBT students stand up to wave of anti-gay graffiti
Over the last four months, the struggle of LGBT students against anti-gay hate has grown in response to a recent…
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Federal court upholds city’s racist ban against day laborers
A Redondo Beach, Calif., ban against day laborers soliciting work has been upheld in the federal courts as a permissible…
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Gulf fisherman files for restraining order against BP after falling ill
Gulf shrimper John Wunstell Jr. has filed a restraining order in federal court against oil giant BP. Wunstell became sick…
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BP spill destroys Native American fishing grounds and livelihoods
Native American tribes in southern Louisiana continue their struggle against Big Oil after decades of land destruction. The Choctaw, Chitimacha,…
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Georgia student fights deportation, gov’t attacks
Jessica Colotl, a twenty-one-year-old Mexican immigrant and student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, is fighting deportation after she was…
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Massey Energy denies workers time off to attend miners’ funerals
Massey Energy, the coal giant whose mine blast in mid-April cost 29 miners their lives, denied workers time off to…
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Louisville cement workers struggle for wages, health insurance
Nearly 100 truck drivers in the Louisville metropolitan area went on strike April 26 against concrete distributor Irving Materials, Inc.…
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