Worker's perspective on saving auto in the U.S.
Last month my wife and I went to the North American International Auto Show. For Detroiters, this is an annual pilgrimage. Where else can you sit behind the wheel of a $110,000 Maserati when you can’t even afford to buy a Chevy Aveo?
Houston DA under fire in e-mail scandal
Harris County, Texas’s flamboyant District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal is in a heap of trouble after years of iron fisted domination of the county courts. Rosenthal, who backs right-wing Bush supporter and crony Gov. Rick Perry, is under fire.
Making free speech history on Calle Ocho in Miami
Antiwar group CodePink and its allies made history here Feb. 9 when they took their Most Wanted Campaign back to Calle Ocho, S.W. 8th Street to highlight the case of notorious terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.
Video: Black History Month special feature
Video: Libero Della Piana, chair of the New York State Communist Party, speaks about the radical legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Della Piana references King's famous 'Beyond Vietnam' Speech made at The Riverside Church in Manhattan on April 4, 1967 where he called for 'revolution of values' and an end to the U.S. war in Vietnam.
Belarus to host 17th World Festival of Youth and Students
The General Council of the World Federation of Democratic Youth decided last weekend that Belarus would host the World Festival of Youth and Students in 2009. The goal of these festivals is to promote peace, international friendship and solidarity.
Workers to feel brunt of recession
The Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR), after examining records of previous economic slumps, has issued a report predicting that a second Bush recession this year will mean rising unemployment and lowering income for workers all the way thorough 2012. Economic downturns, the report says, hurt workers a lot more and a lot longer than they hurt companies.
Hot prospects: Climate change and the candidates
One result of Super Tuesday's primary elections has gotten very little coverage. With those results, the world nudged ever closer to finally -- finally -- grappling with what is arguably our greatest shared challenge, global warming.
Military families win leave
WASHINGTON (PAI)--In a win for working women and for military families, the Family and Medical Leave Act has been extended to military families, proponents said.
Bush joins Chamber in challenging Calif. neutrality law
WASHINGTON (PAI)--In a Supreme Court brief that was really no great surprise, the anti-worker GOP Bush regime joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in arguing against California’s company neutrality law.
Bush gives nod to anti-worker NLRB chair
WASHINGTON (PAI) -- AFL-CIO President John Sweeney blasted anti-worker GOP President George W. Bush for re-nominating anti-worker labor lawyer Robert Battista to a new 5-year term as National Labor Relations Board chairman.
