Cuban doctors to treat Venezuelas poor
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that almost 1,000 Cuban doctors will begin to arrive this week to work in severely under-serviced and impoverished areas of the country. Venezuelan medics have refused to work in these areas.
World/Mundo names Wood labor editor
Roberta “Bobbie” Wood, 54, was recently named labor editor by the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo editorial board. Wood, a retired jouneyman instrument mechanic and member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 9, is legislative vice-president of the Chicago Coalition of Labor Union Women.
Movie Review: Capitalisms victims
Movie Review: Capitalism’s victims Lilya 4-ever, dir. Lukas Moodysson
Editorials
Secrets and lies / Spirit of ’76: keep the fight alive
Britain not quite a parallel media universe
Opinion The people of Britain and the United States are living in parallel, yet substantively different, media universes. Bonds of language and overlaps of mass culture are obvious. But a visit to London quickly illuminates the reality that mainstream journalism is much less narrow here than in America.
Editorials
An opening for struggle / A foot in the door or a kick in the pants
Communist parties pledge Cuba solidarity
Communist and workers’ parties from over 50 countries meeting in Athens, Greece, June 19-20, called for vigorous campaigns in solidarity “with the Cuban people and its heroic struggle for the defense of national independence and sovereignty the socialist system of Cuba and the achievements of the Cuban people.” The parties noted the new level of imperialist hostility towards the socialist nation.
Iraq quagmire echoes Vietnam
Talk of a U.S. quagmire in Iraq is mounting as attacks on U.S. and British soldiers ratchet upward. A harrowing report in the London Evening Standard June 15 gives a graphic picture of traumatized American soldiers trapped in a Vietnam-like war among a hostile population.
