Coalition battles Bush welfare cuts
WASHINGTON – The Republican leadership wants a House floor vote before the Memorial Day recess on reauthorization of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), a bill they have loaded with attacks on the poor such as increasing to 40 hours per week the “workfare” requirement for recipients. For the entire article, click on the headline. To visit the Library of Congress page on HR-3113, click here.
AK Steel workers march against corporate terrorism
PITTSBURGH – There is a war on U.S. workers and Armco-Kawasaki (AK) steelworkers, members of United Steelworkers of America (USWA) Local 169, are on the front lines.
Funeral protests shooting
SEATTLE – “It is not a crime in America to get lost.” This was the comment of Rev. Harriett Walden, head of Mothers for Police Accountability, after the funeral of Robert Thomas, Sr. For the entire article, click on the headline. For more information on Mothers for Police Accountability, click here.
May Day call in D.C.: Amnesty now!
WASHINGTON – Busloads of workers and their allies arrived in the nation’s capital, May Day, to demand that Congress enact HR-500, a bill by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) to grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrant workers. For the entire article, click on the headline. For the Library of Congress webpage on HR-500, click here.
To Cuba and back: Harassment from Washington, followed by a week of inspiration
Thirteen Maine teachers and health workers returned April 21 after a week-long study tour in Cuba. They were there looking at schools, clinics, hospitals and services for children, to find out what happens to egalitarian ideals when social services have to be delivered under conditions of chronic scarcity. For the entire article, click on the headline. For more information on Cuba, visit CubaWeb.
Church leaders condemn Jenin destruction
JENIN, West Bank – Despite Israeli government success in blocking a United Nations fact-finding team, eyewitness reports from international religious groups and other observers tell of massive destruction at the Jenin refugee camp. Fifty bodies have been recovered but many remain unaccounted for.
Nepal faces Maoist and state violence
“All the democratic forces will have to be united to fight both the Maoists and the reactionaries,” Madhav Kumar Nepal, general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal – Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), told The Himalaya Times April 26.
The French elections: A conversation with journalist Henri Alleg
Henri Alleg is a widely known French journalist who joined the Algerian resistance against French colonialism as a youth in 1941, for which he spent five years in prison. He has traveled widely in the U.S. and is the author of several books.
A strategy to win the majority
When 100,000 people marched on Pennsylvania Avenue April 20 to protest George W. Bush’s war on the people “at home and abroad,” the most urgent, immediate demand was that Bush stop his double talk and throw full U.S. support behind Israel’s withdrawal from the West Bank and the creation of a Palestinian state.
Marxism Lives! Marxism and labor
From the beginning of trade unionism in our country, socialists, Marxists and Communists have shown by word and deed their commitment to help build the labor movement. They saw unions as indispensable instruments of struggle to advance the interests of the workers.
