The following excerpts are from remarks by Larry Holmes, Workers World Party First Secretary, at a May 19 New York City branch meeting. Most bourgeois economists are now predicting a recession, which is a sharp downturn in the economy. A recession used to be considered cyclical, but this has changed, . . .
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Finally. The U.S. Supreme Court announced the petition of death row prisoner Rodney Reed would be heard, regarding the constitutionality of Texas laws on DNA testing of crime-scene evidence, on April 25. Rodney Reed at 2015 court hearing For decades Texas courts denied such testing, including of the murder weapon, . . .
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A landmark moment for gender equality was made when the U.S. Women’s National Team Players Association and the U.S. National Soccer Team Players Association ratified two historic collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) May 18 with the U.S. Soccer Federation that will ensure pay equity. This victory was won by a decades-long . . .
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Game developers vote union despite union-busting tactics The Raven Software quality assurance testers have organized under the Game Workers Alliance union in association with the Communications Workers (CWA). The National Labor Relations Board reported May 23 that a majority voted to join the union. Raven Software of Madison, Wisconsin, is . . .
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Food prices are soaring worldwide. Not just prices of wheat and other grains, which is where the U.S. and its allies in the European Union have focused their attention, but also on products like industrial butter and milk powder, whose prices have jumped 70% in a year. (Le Monde, May . . .
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Download the PDF. PRIDE means FIGHT BACK! Israeli military murders journalist Labor pushing back Fired Starbucks workers On the picket line Soccer players win pay equality Cleveland honors Shireen Abu Akleh Commentary: The global capitalist crisis Editorial: Fund formula, not war World: NATO expansion; Gwangju 1980; Saber-rattling in Asia; Sanctions: . . .
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