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Best Wishes for a Peaceful New Year

Best Wishes for a Peaceful New Year

An excerpt of greetings to the Communist Party USAs annual holiday party in New York Dec. 20. Sam Webb is CPUSA National Chair.

BY: CPUSA National Committee| January 4, 2002
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Helen Winter 1908-2001

Helen Winter 1908-2001

Helen Winter, a life-long member of the Communist Party, died Dec. 13. She is survived by a daughter, Michelle Artt, granddaughters Elizabeth Meggison and Ruth Foster, and several great-grandchildren and...

BY: Special to the World| December 22, 2001
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Bush Plan Leaves Some Children Behind

Bush Plan Leaves Some Children Behind

This week the Senate passed the misnamed No Child Left Behind Act, which gives the federal government an unprecedented say in the standards public school children must meet. Yet it...

December 22, 2001
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Pharmaceutical Industry: Rx for Profit

Pharmaceutical Industry: Rx for Profit

By any measure, the pharmaceutical business is big business. Last year, retail pharmacies filled 2.9 billion prescriptions, an increase of 7.5 percent over 1999. Sales from the 50 best-selling prescription...

December 22, 2001
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Arabs and Jews Call for Middle East Peace

Arabs and Jews Call for Middle East Peace

WASHINGTON Arab and Jewish Americans are speaking with one voice in denouncing terrorism in the Middle East and calling for strong action to defend the peace process based on the...

December 22, 2001
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