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** Durham, N.C.: Housing is a human right! ([link removed] )
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Durham, N.C. As the rate of evictions in this rapidly gentrifying city reaches a fever pitch, people here have banded together to demand that the Durham Housing Authority stop displacing residents over the winter season and recognize housing as a human right. Speakers advocate for ‘Housing as a human right!’ . . .
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** Union busting? It’s a crime! – a WW editorial ([link removed] )
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The corporate media constantly tell us that the United States is a great democracy because of its “free elections.” Never mind that Donald Trump became president with fewer votes than his main opponent. Never mind that the U.S. Senate has long been described as a “millionaires’ club.” And never mind . . .
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** Elecciones británicas y derrota del Partido Laborista ([link removed] )
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Esta es una charla ligeramente editada pronunciada durante el foro de Workers World Party/Partido Mundo Obrero el 19 de diciembre en la ciudad de Nueva York. Pensé que deberíamos aprovechar esta oportunidad para hablar sobre las elecciones británicas del 12 de diciembre. No voy a dar un análisis exhaustivo de . . .
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** Cuba supporters win in IFCO victory over IRS ([link removed] )
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Here is a slightly edited statement issued by the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization. Workers World congratulates IFCO on this victory over U.S. government harassment, especially because of IFCO’s important work in support of revolutionary Cuba. WW celebrates the beginning of Cuba’s 61st year as a liberated, independent country working . . .
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** WW editorial: Making liberation more than a word ([link removed] )
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On Dec. 10, dictionary-maker Merriam-Webster announced that, after a 313 percent increase in “look-ups,” the pronoun “they” was declared Word of the Year for 2019. Most significantly, the dictionary has added a new definition for “they” — “a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.” The use of “they” as . . .
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** French unions want retirement ‘reform’ scrapped ([link removed] )
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It was a tough holiday for transportation strikers in France. Their pay packet for December was basically empty. A dancing picket line, Paris, Dec. 24 The struggle on the national railroad (SNCF) at 23 days is longer than a similar struggle over the SNCF retirement plan in 1995 and shows . . .
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** U.S. imperialism uses dollars to rule world economy ([link removed] )
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The whole structure of the world’s financial system — where every day, trillions of dollars, euros and yuan zip from bank to bank, from individuals to companies, to and from all sorts of institutions — still reflects the domination of the U.S. dollar. Graph shows increase in total remittances to . . .
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** Venezuela: Five coup attempts by opposition foiled in 2019 ([link removed] )
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Caracas Published in Sputnik Mundo, Dec. 18. Translation by Michael Otto. Five major violent right-wing operations in Venezuela were put out of commission in 2019. That explains, in part, why the country is ending the year with a tranquility that many find surprising. The last major operation was supposed to . . .
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