Word: proletariat
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...count journalists among the proletariat now. Thanks to a highly unsuccessful four-year strike by six unions on Detroit's two daily newspapers, reporters have been reduced to expendable commodities like the teamsters and press operators with whom they continue to picket. Faced with massive cutbacks in their newsrooms, reporters broke with their employers in an attempt to maintain workplace solidarity and to ensure editorial quality in their publications. But in an age when newspapers are in a cost-cutting mode, as they are now, even union strength did not prove to be enough...
...have to believe that immigration and affirmative action are the greatest threats to our nation's continued prosperity. You don't have to commit yourself to aiding the proletariat in their inevitable overthrow of capitalism. You don't have to be white to join. All you have to do is complete the comp...
...following the rules of the cosmic equilibrium, the end of the baseball strike has brought about a new kind of strike, featuring a new breed of spoiled talents. Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), which represents about 350 teaching assistants, took a stand for the proletariat everywhere and called on its members to not teach any classes this week...
...least understandable. Suppose you are a patriotic Russian in your 60s. Your childhood was passed amid the horrors and suffering of the Great Patriotic War, in which millions died to defend the Motherland against Nazism. Then you survived Stalin, watched the utopian fantasies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat go into sclerosis in the 1960s and '70s, and saw the imperium collapse in the '80s. Today the yellow arches of McDonald's shed their plastic gleam on Red Square, and gangsterism rules instead of socialist virtue. You know the Nazis inflicted incalculable damage on your nation, with the intent...
...perhaps to demonstrate Harvard's solidarity with the urban proletariat, students could brandish semi-automatic firearms. We hear that these devices require less instruction and are far more effective than bare knuckles...