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The story we're told about the protests gripping Kiev bears only the sketchiest relationship with reality

Historic election brings outside interference in the vote of Chattanooga Volkswagen workers

... if the candidate has a real mass base, is building a broad progressive front around a clear, transformational program, and sees the candidacy as one step in a multitiered process, then it might be worth going for it.

"We would no longer know how much was applied and where."

Moral March, Cuba, Koch prosperity, Comcast, UAW Chattanooga,

During the Civil War, strikers and other workers with grievances found a sympathetic ear in the White House and a willingness to use what Lincoln saw as the limited power of his office to allow for a fair contest in disputes between labor and management...