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Longtime Glendale Heights president takes election fight to federal court Linda Jackson Updated 5/6/2021 6:02 PM Glendale Heights on Thursday night was poised to swear in a new village president for the first time in more than 20 years. But the election that made Chodri Khokhar village president is not over in the eyes of two other candidates, including the longtime incumbent, Linda Jackson.   Mike Ontiveroz has requested a partial recount of the official results from the April 6 election that show Khokhar defeating him by only two votes. And Jackson, who had served as village pr...

ANC must be treated like any other ‘non-compliant organisation’ “The perception is there that there is no toughness against non-compliance, which is not good for tax morality. The public must see how Sars deals with this matter, that it is costly to be non-compliant,” tax attorney at Tax Consulting South Africa, Jean du Toit. said. He said if a company is non-compliant, Sars has options to go for the company or the directors personally. In the case of an organisation such as the ANC, Sars could go after the organisation itself as a collective, or its representatives. “There will be ...

  April 29, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — We warmly welcome you to join us for a tribute to the life, activism and legacy of Ernie Tate (1934-2021). Ernie Tate believed capitalism is a cruel and unjust system that has to be changed. Ernie was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1934 and emigrated to Canada in 1955. As a Marxist, union activist and revolutionary, Ernie spent his life working to achieve that in organizing against the war in Vietnam, in union struggles at Toronto Hydro, for protecting universal healthcare and living wages, and much else. Er...

At first blush, Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president brings respite from a world threatened by Donald Trump’s climate-denialist, dictator-coddling, xenophobic, racist, misogynist, rules-breaking regime. On second thought, 2021 will also initiate an unwelcome restoration of legitimacy to Western imperialism akin to Barack Obama’s rule. “Biden’s” (2020) recent Foreign Affairs article began by stressing how since 2017, “the international system that the United States so carefully constructed is coming apart at the seams.” In reconstructing imperialism, Biden may draw upon a le...

DuPage clerk asks what to do with votes cast for ineligible Glendale Heights candidates   Glendale Heights incumbant mayor Linda Jackson, right, whose name the Illinois Supreme Court ordered removed from the April 6 ballot late Friday, talks with resident Vikki Razzle on Saturday at the village's Center for Senior Citizens. Barbara Vitello | Staff Photographer Edward Pope, candidate for Glendale Heights village president, was ordered to be removed from the April 6 ballot by the Illinois Supreme Court.   Updated 4/6/2021 12:41 AM The DuPage County clerk is seeking guidance fr...