Working Class Strategy in the Era of Capitalist Globalization
Based on a four-day joint ‘think tank’ of the Labor and Economics Commissions of the Communist Party, USA, this pamphlet explores important questions of globalization facing workers, unions and their communities. Can workers find a global response? Can we make “Workers of the World, Unite” a practical reality?
MEDICARE FOR ALL! A Guide to Single Payer National Health Insurance
A lively 36 page pamphlet explaining universal health care, particularly the single-payer plan (HR 676, “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act”) advocated by Rep. John Conyers and 76 others. Written by health care activist B.S. Rosen & illustrated by Peggy Lipschutz.
Workers beat back Waste Managements challenge
OAKLAND, Calif. — Residents and businesses here and in neighboring cities heaved a collective sigh of relief this week as garbage workers returned to work July 30 at Waste Management of Alameda County, proud that with support from other unions and the community they had turned back a corporate giant’s all-out union-busting drive.
Palestinian doctor paints picture of Gaza under siege
CHICAGO — Dr. Mona El-Farra, speaking here as part of a 17-city U.S. tour, related how recently a Palestinian woman in the Occupied Territories had gone into labor and was heading to a hospital. “She was about to give birth, but she was detained at an Israeli checkpoint for three hours,” El-Farra said. “Amazingly, she eventually got through and was able to deliver her child.”
Arnold the Fish Terminator
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ramped up his campaign to build a peripheral canal and more water storage facilities with four major press conferences July 16-24, at northern California’s San Luis Reservoir, Twitchell Island in the Delta, Long Beach and San Diego.
