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Other speakers included a pair of unionized janitors, a representative from the Radcliffe Union of Students and members of the Socialist Alternative—a national organization which shares many of its Cambridge members with Harvard’s No Layoffs Campaign, an activist group that has been protesting the University’s job cuts since last summer...
...Socialist Alternative was just one of several socialist groups represented at Friday’s rally, which also drew members of the Workers’ Vanguard newspaper and the Revolutionary Worker magazine. Several people in the crowd said that the socialist presence might scare off some potentially interested moderates, but most of them maintained that the rally’s strongest point was its unification of many different groups behind a single cause...
...starters, the U.S. will have to take up the slack left by departing allies. When Spain's new Socialist Prime Minister held firm on his campaign promise to withdraw his 1,300 troops, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, which rely on the Spanish for command and control, decided to bug out as well. Thailand threatened to withdraw its aid workers if attacked, and even faithful Australia is down to 850 of the 2,000 troops it originally shipped over last year. Secretary of State Colin Powell called leaders of roughly half the 34 coalition countries to try to prevent further...
...aimed at pressuring Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to withdraw Italy's nearly 3,000 troops from Iraq, as the insurgents had specifically demanded. But the net effect was the same, and so many Italians stayed home. "Participating is an error," says Enrico Boselli, an opposition leader with the Socialist party. "It can make the captors think that you are available to comply with their requests." Still, the unknown hostage-takers were apparently gratified by the sight of 5,000 people marching in Rome on Thursday. They released a statement on al-Jazeera Friday saying they were pleased with the march...
...Chinese are intensely proud of Yao, who has done the Confucian thing by living with his parents and sending polite holiday cards to his teammates and opponents, Shaquille O'Neal included. But few people outside the Middle Kingdom ever imagined how deeply a product of China's socialist sports system would capture American hearts. Earlier this year, Yao signed a deal with McDonald's, which had dropped its previous spokesman, Kobe Bryant. Kobe was supposed to be the next Jordan. Turns out the new Michael is a man named Ming. --By BROOK LARMER, author of a forthcoming book on China...