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Illinois budget axes $3 billion in vital services, lays off thousands
On July 15, the Illinois state government passed a $26 billion budget that includes $2.1 billion in cuts to social…
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Mayor puts Chicago workers on hook for 2016 Olympics
On June 17, at an International Olympic Committee meeting in Switzerland, Mayor Richard Daley committed the city of Chicago to…
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Stop Governor Schwarzenegger’s budget cuts!
The following is based on a presentation at a meeting of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in San Francisco,…
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Government policy shuts out port workers
According to a report by the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group for workers, as many as 23,000 port…
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Honduran coup: U.S. claim of neutrality false
On Sunday, June 28, in the early morning hours of a day when the people of Honduras were preparing to…
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Health care is a human right
Health care is a fundamental human right. Yet 47 million people in the United States have no health care coverage…
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Supreme Court rejects right to DNA tests
On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that prisoners have no constitutional right to demand DNA testing that…
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Sotomayor and the Supreme Court
The following is an abridged version of a presentation at a New York City PSL forum June 12. On May…
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Supreme Court denies challenge to bigoted “don’t ask, don’t tell”
Citing "the government's legitimate interest in military discipline and cohesion," the U.S. Supreme Court refused on June 8 to hear…
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Timothy F. Geithner: capitalist criminal
On Jan. 26, Timothy Geithner became the U.S. secretary of the treasury. A former president of the Federal Reserve Bank…
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