Workers World first published this article on June 6, 2002. Lawsuits have been filed in New York and New Jersey targeting corporations that profited from the slave trade. These class-action lawsuits name three companies: Fleet Boston Financial, Aetna and CSX. Fleet Boston grew out of a bank established by a . . .
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By Patrick Cate and Lyn Neeley The West Coast Longshore strike in 1934 shut down docks from California to Washington state. Here, police help strikebreakers cross that picket line in Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore. In November a federal jury in Portland, Ore., fined the Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) $9.6 . . .
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Bulletin: Bernie Sanders is the winner of the Feb. 11 New Hampshire primary with 26 percent of the vote. The path to becoming president of the United States — the so-called “democractic process” — is full of undemocratic obstacles that nearly always send a wealthy, white, cisgendered, heterosexual, Christian-identified man . . .
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