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Two cops in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, gunned down
15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos on Dec. 6. Hours after the shooting, young
people in Athens began to rebel against the cops....
Posted Dec 17, 2008
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Activists organized by the youth group FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand
Together) protested at the Greek National Tourist Organization in New York on
Dec. 16 in solidarity with youth and workers in Greece....
Posted Dec 17, 2008
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Excerpts from a talk given by David Hoskins at the WWP National
Conference, Nov. 15-16.
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Posted Dec 12, 2008
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The name “Mama Africa” was bestowed upon
Makeba because she was the first person to make African music heard and known
internationally....
Posted Dec 7, 2008
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Some 25 workers’ organizations, communists and anti-imperialist
activists from four continents sent messages of solidarity to the Nov. 15-16
Workers World Party National Conference....
Posted Nov 20, 2008
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The four hurricanes that hit Haiti in August and September directly caused 800
deaths and massive destruction of its roads and bridges, along with the crops
and cropland that feed its people....
Posted Nov 16, 2008
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The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing sent an
Emergency Hurricane Relief Brigade to Cuba on Oct. 20....
Posted Nov 16, 2008
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The large majority of participants came from the former
colonial countries, what today is called “the South.” About an
equal number were from Asia and Africa; more came from Latin America, since
there was a large Cuban and Venezuelan participation. There were both East and
West Europeans....
Posted Nov 8, 2008
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When 300 women workers who manufactured SIRIUS satellite radios in Seoul, South
Korea, were all fired for forming a union, they vowed to fight for their
jobs....
Posted Nov 2, 2008
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While the Bush gang in Washington and its counterparts in London, Paris,
Berlin, Madrid and Tokyo were turning over the public treasury to financiers,
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was releasing government funds to a bank
designated to make loans to popular projects in that country’s poorer
communities....
Posted Oct 30, 2008
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China is forcing some of the biggest corporations in the world to immediately
allow workers in their giant plants, offices and shops to unionize. In a widely
publicized 100-day campaign, the Chinese government set a deadline of Sept. 30
for corporations doing business there to recognize unions....
Posted Oct 18, 2008
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For the first time in 26 years, the Windsor University Faculty Association went
on strike Sept. 17 at the University of Windsor, a university of 16,000
undergraduate and graduate students in southern Ontario....
Posted Oct 4, 2008
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In 2002, George W. Bush named Iran as part of an “axis of
evil,” warning about Iran’s “nuclear ambitions.”
Although International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have found no evidence
of Iran developing a nuclear weapons program, Bush continues to state that Iran
is a “threat” to world peace....
Posted Oct 3, 2008
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Haiti started the month of August as the poorest country by far in the Western
Hemisphere. Then four hurricanes—Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike—hit the
country, doing vast and unmeasured damage....
Posted Sep 28, 2008
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The technology for harvesting clean power from the wind has improved greatly in
the last few years. That’s the good news....
Posted Sep 14, 2008
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Hurricane Ike brushed by Haiti Sept. 7, dumping major rainfall that forced the
residents of Gonaïves to flee to higher ground or climb up on their roofs
once again....
Posted Sep 10, 2008
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While much of the media and public attention has been on the Olympics and the
Republican and Democratic national conventions, the Pentagon has been ramping
up for what many believe is a planned attack on Iran....
Posted Sep 7, 2008
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The impending arrival of new U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf
region will mark the largest build-up of U.S. naval forces in the area since
the 1991 Gulf War....
Posted Aug 15, 2008
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Excerpts from an article that first appeared July 26, 2001. It is especially appropriate in the week following the opening of the
2008 Olympics in Beijing, something that
would not have been possible without the tremendous revolution of 1949 led by
the Chinese Communist Party....
Posted Aug 13, 2008
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Carlene Balderrama’s suicide epitomizes the extreme desperation that
women in particular are feeling as a result of the capitalist economic crisis....
Posted Aug 11, 2008
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Emmanuel “Toto” Constant was convicted at the end of July for bank
and mortgage fraud....
Posted Aug 8, 2008
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Anti-imperialists around the world paid close attention to the Aug. 2 Stop War
on Iran actions taking place in the United States, and in some places they
joined these actions....
Posted Aug 6, 2008
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The New York branch of the revolutionary youth organization FIST (Fight
Imperialism, Stand Together) first held a Marxist discussion on the role of the
Dalai Lama and his entanglements with the CIA and then turned the talk into
action....
Posted Jul 26, 2008
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Chanting, shouting and raising their fists in triumph, the travel ban
challengers of the 39th Venceremos Brigade, the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange and
the African Awareness Association marched across the Peace Bridge from Fort
Erie, Ontario, into Buffalo, N.Y., in open defiance of the U.S. blockade of
Cuba....
Posted Jul 19, 2008
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea took a dramatic step on June 27
to prove conclusively to the world that it was disabling its technology for
making nuclear weapons....
Posted Jul 3, 2008
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As told by most history textbooks in the U.S., the Korean War started with a
June 25, 1950, invasion from the communist north and the freedom-loving U.S.
came to the aid of the besieged democratic Republic of Korea in the south. The
reality was very different....
Posted Jun 29, 2008
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magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province shows its ability and willingness to
mobilize enormous resources and people-power in a matter of hours in order to
carry out a complex plan of rescue, relief and reconstruction....
Posted Jun 15, 2008
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The history of Haiti has been marked by stubborn, lengthy and mass resistance
and struggle to achieve justice against heavy odds....
Posted Jun 1, 2008
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Cuba is actively helping Haiti develop a literacy project....
Posted May 27, 2008
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The People's Republic of China suffered an earthquake of immense
proportions on May 12 in the southwest province of Sichuan. One week later, the
toll of known dead had risen to more than 40,000 and was expected to keep
growing. Some 3 million people have been left homeless....
Posted May 21, 2008
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Thanks for the WW article including the San Francisco Olympic Torch
events. There were so many pro-China people. I was amazed at the huge number of
Chinese flags!...
Posted May 3, 2008
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Jin Jing had a smile on her face as she rolled her wheelchair through the
streets of Paris. Her smile was undeterred by the violent attack on her by Free Tibet agents as she bore the Olympic torch through the
streets....
Posted Apr 27, 2008
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Most noteworthy about the protests in London, Paris and San Francisco that
targeted the Olympic Torch on its way to the Beijing Olympics was their
character....
Posted Apr 20, 2008
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The Dalai Lama claims that China is committing "cultural genocide"
against the Tibetan people, and his claims and news of the events unfolding in
the regional capital of Lhasa have captured a great deal of attention in the
major media outlets in the U.S....
Posted Apr 3, 2008
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The Cuban government condemned the attempts to organize a politically motivated
crusade to make the 2008 Olympic Games in the city of Beijing, China, fail this
year....
Posted Apr 3, 2008
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The revolutionary movement in neighboring Nepal, led by the Communist Party of
Nepal (Maoist), has waged a heroic struggle since 1996 against a brutal feudal
monarchy similar to that of pre-revolutionary Tibet....
Posted Apr 3, 2008
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Can there be any doubt that the U.S. government is behind the attacks on China
targeting the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing?...
Posted Mar 27, 2008
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Excerpts from two WW articles in 1968.on the 1968 French uprising began on May
3....
Posted Mar 20, 2008
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The apology of Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Feb. 13 for the
racist treatment inflicted on the country’s Aboriginal people was long
overdue....
Posted Feb 23, 2008
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Heavy fighting broke out Jan. 20 when resistance fighters attacked puppet
government troops in southern Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital....
Posted Jan 27, 2008
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The movie "Charlie Wilson's War" is no more truthful about
Afghanistan than "Gone with the Wind" was about slavery....
Posted Jan 2, 2008
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