Word: defend
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This rationale offered perfect political cover for Congressmen whose real purpose was to protect the endangered tax breaks of special-interest groups. . Sunbelt Congressmen could look out for oil and gas; Northwestern Congressmen could protect timber; Representatives from Rustbelt states could defend steel and heavy industry. In the end, 164 Republicans and 59 Democrats rebelled and defeated the proposed rule, 223 to 202. Only 14 Republicans backed the President...
...foreign markets. Even the short-term run-up in stock value that frequently occurs in merger situations may not be to the long-term benefit of a company, since it may overstate the firm's actual worth. Martin Lipton, a Wall Street lawyer who specializes in helping companies defend themselves against raids, denounces them "as financial transactions for the profit of the takeover entrepreneurs." He adds sharply, "They do not create jobs. They do not add to the national wealth. They merely rearrange ownership interests and shift risk from shareholders to creditors." Concurs Peter Jones, retired senior vice president...
Students who want to fight racism and U.S. imperialism must look to the SYL. It is we Marxists who defend the Soviet Union who organized a 5000-strong labor/Black mobilization that stopped the Ku Klux Klan from marching in Washington, D.C., November, 1982. We will continue to struggle to build a revolutionary party to lead such actions and fight to win students to the side of the working class...
...hates Russia more than it wants to fight fascism, so they line up behind Reagan on the left flank of the anti-Soviet war drive. Because the ISO does not defend the Soviet Union against imperialist attack, they are impotent in the face of its domestic reflection: union-busting and race terrorism. The most hideous recent example of race-terror was the cold-blooded, state-organized murder of 11 members of the MOVE commune in Philadelphia by Reagan and his Black democratic front-man mayor Wilson Goode. However, despicable Joe Menn can joke in his piece about Klan-style "sordid...
...shouted him down. Joe didn't show, although at the time he claimed to be a militant socialist and had even told some of his friends that he had joined the SYL! In the spring of 1984, trade union militants in Boston formed mass picket lines to defend Greyhound workers. It was one of the most critical labor battles following Reagan's crushing of PATCO, and the SYL brought students down to stand in those picket lines. When we called Joseph to come down at 6 a.m. his response was shock and dismay: "You mean that people...