Letters
Western Sahara exchange; Attack on Soviet Union is wrong; No retreat; Concealing class; More on meat ; Global AIDS crisis
Editorial: An uneasy summer
On the first day of summer, June 21, the Winn-Dixie grocery chain, located primarily in the Southeast, announced that 22,000 workers would end up on the street and over 300 stores will be darkened.
Labor Update
‘Like working in the tailpipe of a bus’; JwJ to meet Sept. 22–25; Unity resolutions
Capital campaign tops $330,000
CHICAGO — The campaign to raise money for three working-class centers of unity, action and education reached $330,000 last week, just $70,000 shy of its $400,000 goal. With two weeks left in the campaign, spokespeople for the New York-based Chelsea Fund for Education and Chicago-based Workers Education Society — the co-sponsoring, nonprofit entities — are cautiously optimistic about reaching the goal by the July 1 deadline.
Bolivias crisis unresolved, say Communists
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The resignation of President Carlos Mesa, said the Communist Party of Bolivia, “has not solved the political crisis that burdens our country.”
Letters
Welcoming the discussion; Let’s work together; On U.S. socialism; Take back America?; Marxism without meat?
Labor Update
Methodists support EFCA; Bulls Eye on FMLA; Public support for United Airlines workers; Rutgers students won’t choke on Coke; NLRB give OK to nurses’ firing
OAS stands up to U.S., supports Venezuela
“Madam Secretary, democracy cannot be imposed,” said Celso Amorim, Brazil’s foreign minister, in reply to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the 35th General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS). “Latin America has its own identity,” he said. “It has recuperated its dignity — not to confront the United States, but to confront imperialist politics.”
Harilaos Florakis, Greek leader, dies
The Communist Party of Greece announced that its honorary chairman, Harilaos Florakis, died May 22 at the age of nearly 91.
Crash into racism
In the beginning of “Crash,” the directorial debut of Paul Haggis (he won the Oscar for writing the screenplay for “Million Dollar Baby”), you hear what you think is going to be a long narration by Don Cheadle. Outside, it’s smoky and steamy, and it’s night. He’s just been rear-ended. His voice is soft, slow and clear. He’s expressing the explosion that humans need to have happen every now and then, so we don’t live our whole lives inside the bubble of the glass and metal of a car.
