Efforts to overturn Belarus elections fail
After several days of tolerating illegal and increasingly violent protests against the results of the country’s recent presidential elections, the Belarusian government put a stop to them during the early morning hours of March 25
Midwest gears up for YCL Convention
ST. LOUIS — On March 25-26 the Young Communist League hosted its first Midwest Regional Conference at Teamsters Hall here. YCL members and friends, old and new, came from all over the Midwest to discuss a draft action plan to be voted on at the group’s national convention on May 27-29 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Detroiters battle over water issues
DETROIT — Chanting “No layoffs, no cuts, Detroit won’t go to the back of the bus,” Detroit Water and Sewage Department (DWSD) workers braved cold winds March 21 to protest the city’s plan to lay off 5 percent of the workforce beginning the week of April 10.
Venezuelas quest to empower the poor
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Nearly 100 students and community activists attended “Forum Venezuela” here March 7 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The forum, organized by the Columbia Peace Coalition, Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Columbia Young Communist League (YCL), shed light on the tremendous changes taking place in Venezuela.
OBITUARY: Elsie Dickerson, 88, CPUSA leader
Elsie Dickerson, longtime chairperson of the Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware district of the Communist Party USA, passed away Feb. 21 after a long illness. She was 88.
Long live March Madness
George Mason beats perennial power North Carolina? Wichita State beats Tennessee, Bradley beats Kansas, who would have thought?
Male supremacy is not just womens problem
The oppression of women and the male supremacist ideology that justifies it arose from and has been a part of all class-divided societies. Today it is bound up with capitalist exploitation and the drive for maximum corporate profits.
Union drive crashes the party
CHICAGO — Shirley Brown, 47, works very hard. Every day the 10-year veteran housekeeper with Resurrection Health Care Westlake Hospital here pushes her supply cart through the hospital, mopping, wiping and scrubbing, cleaning waiting rooms, patient-care rooms, bathrooms and countertops. She gets home about 3:45 in the afternoon. Most nights by 6 p.m., she’s exhausted and goes straight to bed.
THIS WEEK IN LABOR
Chalk one up to solidarity CLCs move on HR 676 CTW says ‘Make work pay Pride at Work hits Ford boycott Iraqi speaker at AFL-CIO Verizon steals union label ‘He’s an angel’
