2.7 million German metalworkers hit the bricks
Sixty thousand German autoworkers stayed home May 6 as IG Metall, the country’s largest and most powerful union, with 2.7 million members, launched the first wave of a series of “flexible” strikes that will move from company to company through the country’s industrial heartland in coming days. For the entire article, click on the headline. For more information, visit the homepage of The German International Mine Workers' Federation.
Hi, Mom, its me, Jimmy ...
Many of us use the telephone for e-mail correspondence; I can contact a brother in Iowa, a sister in Japan and as many others as I might want to reach – even my editor in Chicago – all for a little over 10 cents.
We come for peace
Remarks to April 20 peace rally in Washington, D.C.
The human face of child care
There is a childcare center in Washington, D.C., where parents have to provide basic resources like soap, tissues and crayons. Children there take a daily walk along busy city streets because there is no play area and no better way for them to get fresh air.
The bully on the block
Earlier this month the right-wing Neanderthals in charge of U.S. foreign policy took two more steps toward a foreign policy aimed at creating a world order dictated by the United States.
Rally protests racial profiling
MADISON, Wisc. – Students and community members staged a rally and march here April 27 against racial profiling. Kim Lampereur, a Young Communist League member and one of the organizers of the demonstration, hailed the event as “the first step toward building a broad coalition to end racial profiling and defend civil rights.”
The April unemployment report: No spring flowers here
Two sets of recently released government data present a contradictory picture of the state of the nation’s economy. On the one hand, the Commerce Department reports that the economy expanded at an annual rate of 5.8 percent for the first three months of the year.
Illinois students fired up over funding cuts
CHICAGO – At a spirited rally here May 2, several hundred mostly college students, gathered at the State of Illinois building to protest cuts in education funding proposed by the Illinois state legislature.
Housing: Key component in public health
The May issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) carries an excellent discussion on the origins of efforts to improve the health for people in the U.S., which stemmed in part from the popularity of the term “public health.”
Building movements at the grassroots
Grassroots and rank and file organizing is at the very essence of the process of social change, CPUSA National Organization Secretary Elena Mora told the CPUSA National Committee (NC) in February. Communists aren’t the only ones talking about how to build and strengthen grassroots organization. In the labor movement and other movements there is much discussion on this very issue as well, Mora said.
