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...Harvard's formerly rent-controlled housing units to be purchased at below market cost by tenants or continue as rental units owned by the city's non-profit community development corporations. And our committee's presence at the rally has nothing to do with "reciprocity," "solidarity" or the socialist movement...
...succumbed to prostate cancer Monday. He served longer (14 years) as France's president than anyone since Napoleon III, leaving behind "a mixed legacy that is bound to fascinate and confound historians for decades to come," says Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. Mitterand became president in 1981 as a socialist, but two years after sweeping nationalizations and other leftist policies had created runaway inflation, a spiraling trade deficit and a sagging franc, he abruptly changed course and put the country on a solidly capitalistic course. For that, critics called him a cynical, power-thirsty, amoral opportunist. Mitterand's reputation...
...estate interests. Tanner doesn't believe it is right for her to lose her home, though she has only lived at her current address for two years. Rohr thinks that the market itself is unfair because he can't afford to live where he desires. Hall is of the socialist mindset that property seizure is just so long as it benefits the least well...
Protestors didn't seem to have a problem with capital improvement, but with their contribution to it. So it should come as no surprise to know that the International Socialist Organization (ISO) endorsed and took part in the rally. ISO member Annie Zirin, a secretary at the Office of Career Services, was selling Socialist Worker there. "Working class people deserve to have a decent standard of living," she told me, as if PROLETARIAN had been branded on the protestors genes...
Groups sponsoring the demonstrations include Cambridge Eviction Free Zone, Agassiz Tenants Association, Cambridge Tenant Senate, Stu-Lin Tenants Association, HCAH, Progressive Action Network, Committee on Housing Rights, Education 4 Action, HARAAH, the International Socialist Organization and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization