Reality check needed
After the government announced June 6 that last month’s jump in the unemployment rate was the worst in more than 20 years, a few corporate mouthpieces admitted that the economy might have “stalled.”
Philadephia talk on Palestine today
“Any Israeli soldier can go into any Palestinian home in any village, town or city and remove a person. The Palestinian police can do nothing. We have no protection. We have no security,” said Dr. Hanan Ahmad Awwad, president of the Palestinian Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Italy moves right
In Italy’s recent general election, the right-wing Casa delle Liberta ('House of Liberties' Party or CL) dealt a severe blow to the new centrist Partito Democratico (Democratic Party, or PD). The CL – a coalition of the fascist National Alliance (AN) and the Forza Italia Party of magnate Silvio Berlusconi – beat the PD by 10 points. Strikingly, for the first time since the end of fascism, there will be no Communist representation in Parliament. In Rome, AN leader Gianni Alemanno beat the PD's Francesco Rutelli to become mayor.
Bush not welcome in Arizona
Growing popular opposition to the ultra right agenda of Sen. John McCain had President George Bush on the run in McCain's home state.
Workers receive un-kosher treatment, and other labor stories
By a 6-3 margin, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled May 27 that federal workers, like private sector workers, can sue when their employer retaliates against them for filing discrimination claims. In a case involving Puerto Rican postal worker Myrna Gomez-Perez, the justices ruled the Postal Service discriminated against her in 2002 on the basis of age. She was then 45.
Justice bus confronts employers in Houston
The Harris County AFL-CIO Seventh Justice Bus stopped at 10 worksites in the Houston area on May 13. The aim of the visits was to cite employers for either their good or bad treatment of workers seeking contracts.
