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We publish a newspaper every two weeks titled The Spark.
Issue no. 723 — March 15 - 29, 2004
Editorial
Editorial: They promise jobs – Don't hold your breath
Pages 2-3
Gas prices going to record highs – manipulated by the big oil companies
Los Angeles – a capitalist model
Michigan: Tax cuts for wealthy mean permanently reduced services
The Martha Stewart trial: A show to divert attention from the bigger crimes
Baltimore students rally and protest against cuts in school funding
Pages 4-5
Haiti: Aristide kicked out, armed conflict and misery remain
Iraq: The new Interim Constitution – a phony "democracy"
Pages 6-7
Pushing the death penalty in Michigan – taking the state backwards 158 years
A UAW shop faces sweatshop conditions
Detroit: There's more than one way to raise a tax
Page 8
One year of the U.S. War in Iraq: Poison fruits of an imperialist war