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In the U.S.
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Who keeps our subways and buses running? Not the high-paid executives of the MTA. Not the bankers who milk our transit system through huge interest payments....
Posted Dec 19, 2005
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The news spread like
wildfire throughout the cavernous Doraville, Ga., GM assembly plant on the
Monday before the November holidays: “We’re on the hit list.
They’re going to shut us down.”...
Posted Dec 1, 2005
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Activities commemorating Rosa Parks Day listed on
Troops Out Now Web site...
Posted Nov 23, 2005
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Workers World Forum, Oct. 22—Watch or listen to the talks by the main speakers...
Posted Oct 25, 2005
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When local
police assaulted five Black youth last April in this Boston suburb, they struck
a rock of resistance. The five young men, all high school students, have
endured, along with their families, unjust expulsion from school even before
their cases are heard and have had to spend thousands of dollars for lawyers to
rebut a racist frame-up by the police....
Posted Oct 14, 2005
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Katrina: A Challenge to the Movement
With Monica Moorehead, Brenda Stokely, Chris Silvera, Nellie Bailey, Saladin Muhammad, Larry Holmes and more...
Posted Oct 9, 2005
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Hundreds of activists with the disability rights group American Disabled
for Attendant Programs Today [ADAPT] descended on Washington, D.C., Sept. 17-21
to protest Medicaid cuts and demand housing and personal care for disabled
people. WW reporter Lou Paulsen interviewed Ed Hoffmans....
Posted Oct 6, 2005
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Millions of people had not heard of Lena Baker until the Georgia Board of
Pardons and Paroles posthumously pardoned her on Aug. 15....
Posted Sep 5, 2005
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On Aug. 25 the Milwaukee School Board voted
to increase awareness in the school district and provide more information to
parents about the “opt-out” provision in the “No Child Left
Behind” act....
Posted Sep 5, 2005
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Resolution passed unanimously passed by the Detroit City Council on July 27, 2005. The resolution was submitted by Council Member Joann Watson....
Posted Aug 16, 2005
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“There is nothing
intrinsic to socialism—a planned economy in a workers’
state—that lends itself to anti-gay bigotry or any other form of divisive
ideology,” well-known transgender lesbian activist Leslie Feinberg
stressed at West Coast public meetings July 15-18. “Capitalism, on the
other hand, is a dog-eat-dog economy that requires divide-and conquer
ideology.”...
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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On May 25, some 400 people
demonstrated against the racist anti-immigrant Minuteman Project organization in
Garden Grove, near Los Angeles....
Posted Jun 5, 2005
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Posted May 19, 2005
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One day after millions of workers around the world had reclaimed the streets in celebration of May Day, the U.S. ruling class launched an attack on a powerful symbol of liberation for the workers and oppressed inside the United States....
Posted May 12, 2005
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Hundreds of anti-racist protesters came out May 8 to protest a planned march and rally by the neo-Nazi organization “White Revolution.” ...
Posted May 12, 2005
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To no one’s surprise, California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger again joined the immigrant bashing that is growing across
the country. ...
Posted May 4, 2005
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For the first time in many years, leaders of working class
struggles joined anti-war forces to reclaim May Day, the International
Workers’ Day that is honored by millions of workers from Asia and Europe
to the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Yet it had been effectively
suppressed in the United States—even though it originated here with the
struggle for the eight-hour day in 1886....
Posted May 4, 2005
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The spirit of labor
leader Harry Bridges could be felt in San Francisco May 1, as members of his
union celebrated International Workers Day with a call for renewed resistance to
exploitation, racism and war....
Posted May 4, 2005
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The May Day rallies held this year across the
United States reflect the growing current that is leading a broad fightback
against the cuts in social programs, oppression, racism and war that are endemic
to capitalism. ...
Posted May 4, 2005
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The struggle is on to reclaim May
Day—-International Workers Day—-in its birthplace, the United
States. But throughout the world, workers, peasants, oppressed people and
students already embrace the legacy of the 1886 Haymarket martyrs. They
celebrate May 1 as a day to further their fight for unity, jobs and social
justice, and against the U.S. war machine....
Posted May 4, 2005
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The most significant thing about this
year’s attempt to revive May Day as a day of international working class
solidarity is that it comes from a segment of the working class
itself—particularly from the Black working-class leadership of the Million
Worker March Movement, along with others....
Posted Apr 27, 2005
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Graduate student-workers and their allies at
three of the biggest universities in the Northeast are engaging in massive,
spirited work actions. ...
Posted Apr 20, 2005
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The hundreds of billions of
dollars spent by the Pentagon on the illegal war and occupation of Iraq have
meant more poverty, more cutbacks and a plummeting standard of living for the
workers, poor and people of color in the U.S. ...
Posted Apr 14, 2005
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With counter-recruitment efforts gaining momentum across the country, and the
threat of a draft bringing more youth, parents and educators into the movement,
a national conference against the draft and military recruiting will be held on
April 16 at P.S. 41 in Manhattan....
Posted Apr 14, 2005
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On March 31, at the U.S./Mexico border in
Arizona, an anti-immigrant group calling itself the Minuteman Project gathered.
It made big news. ...
Posted Apr 6, 2005
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During the last weeks of Terri
Schiavo’s life, the media were filled with posturing right-wing ideologues
striving to “save Terri’s life.” Closer examination shows that
these fulminations were worse than hypocritical—they were cynical to the
extreme....
Posted Apr 6, 2005
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Young people’s passive resistance to
the Iraq occupation is driving Army recruiters into early retirement, depression
and thoughts of suicide. In addition, active resistance is growing at all
levels, from pickets at recruitment centers to troops refusing orders to Iraq.
Individual military resisters are becoming spokespersons and role models for
other troops....
Posted Mar 30, 2005
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Ethel Bailey, a beloved
longtime comrade of the Detroit branch of Workers World Party, died on March 2.
She was 93 years old....
Posted Mar 30, 2005
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A new anti-war movement is
rising. People all over the globe took to the streets on the weekend of March
19-20 to demand an end to the U.S. war for expanding empire. Demonstrations took
place in more than 40 countries. And in the U.S., the belly of the beast,
demonstrations, rallies, meetings and vigils took place in more than 700 cities
and towns. ...
Posted Mar 23, 2005
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As the brutal occupation of Iraq grinds on after two years of death and destruction, its toll on working-class youth and the growing impoverishment of already oppressed communities is reshaping the anti-war movement in the United States....
Posted Mar 20, 2005
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Young people from New York
to California, in colleges and high schools, are stepping up their efforts to
stop the Pentagon from using the economic draft to lure their fellow students
into the war machine....
Posted Mar 16, 2005
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Solidarity is the secret weapon of the oppressed,
the exploited and the disenfranchised....
Posted Mar 16, 2005
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On the weekend of March
19-20, the U.S. government will once again be facing worldwide protests against
the illegal and brutal occupation of Iraq. In New York City, activists from
various communities and struggles have formed a vibrant coalition to stop the
war at home and abroad....
Posted Mar 9, 2005
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After a whirlwind of activities
during the "Free Frances Newton" week Feb. 20-27, tens of thousands of
Houstonians became familiar with Newton's case....
Posted Mar 2, 2005
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Civil rights leader
the Rev. Martin Luther King sent out an appeal across the country for all who
supported the African American freedom movement to come to Selma. One of
the thousands who answered that call was Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old white woman
from Detroit....
Posted Mar 2, 2005
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"This is a major victory for all abolitionists!
Another leg has been kicked out from under the table of the racist, anti-poor
death penalty," exclaimed Njeri Shakur....
Posted Mar 2, 2005
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Sat. March 19 in Central Park NYC...
Posted Feb 24, 2005
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The crucial importance of
linking the anti-war and anti-racist movements was the theme of an all-day
conference in
southern California....
Posted Feb 23, 2005
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Malcolm X is a symbol of revolutionary thought and action....
Posted Feb 23, 2005
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Devin Brown was shot and killed by a Los Angeles
police officer....
Posted Feb 17, 2005
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Ossie Davis, who passed away on Feb. 4 at the age
of 87, was one of the greatest performing artists of the 20th century, or of any
other century.
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Posted Feb 13, 2005
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An overflow,
standing-room-only crowd met at the historic Freedom House in Boston on Feb. 3
over issues of school bus safety. They put the School Department and First
Student Inc., the privately owned school bus company, on the hot seat....
Posted Feb 13, 2005
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After all the triumphalism, all the grandiose
boasts about U.S. finance capital bringing "democracy" to the world on the tips
of bayonets, here comes the bill. And it's a whopper....
Posted Feb 13, 2005
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