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As news of crackdowns on U.S. campus protests spread, students in Ireland drew inspiration and planned a strategic path to victory.

If it succeeds, California’s legal protections for farmworkers could be rolled back to conditions that prevailed before César Chavez’s campaigns for farm unionization in the 1960s.

Difficult as the road to forcing the US out of Vietnam was, the path to winning Palestinian self-determination and equal rights for all in Israel-Palestine appears even more challenging.

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The key to this grassroots unionism lies in the connection between organizing and collective bargaining aimed at improvements in wages, working and living conditions. What was striking, from an Italian viewpoint, was the lack of political discussion.

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