DeLay rebuked by House committee
Three times in a week, U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) received a rebuke from the House ethics committee.
Slackers in revolt: youth and the upcoming election
Opinion The slacker vote? To many, this sounds like a contradiction in terms. Kids and students only want to hang out and have a good time.
The Latinos for Kerry momentum
Opinion The more the Latino voter turnout grows by Nov. 2, the greater the likelihood the Kerry-Edwards ticket will defeat Bush-Cheney and the extreme right-wing majority in Congress. click here for Spanish text
Bush uses 9/11 for votes, neglects WTC responders
The Center for Disease Control’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” (MMWR) has issued the first official findings from its federally funded Mt. Sinai Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program concerning the health status of rescue and recovery workers at the World Trade Center after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Reader commentMilitary families on Interstate 35
The Bush administration’s pretensions to represent anyone apart from its corporate cronies have never been further from reality.
A perfect storm on pensions
In an earlier column on the crisis gripping state employee pension funds, I mistakenly gave some comfort to private sector workers by alluding to pension protections provided by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
Pages from workers lives
During the Depression in the 1930s, too many people in the United States died of hunger. Millions of families were saved from this fate by getting jobs with the Works Project Administration (WPA).
International notes
Spain: U.S. troops won’t march on holiday / Nigeria: Nationwide general strike starts / Chile: Constitution to be overhauled / Japan: Demand tests for all beef
A witness to history: Venezuelas vote
WASHINGTON — It started as a desire to witness history: Venezuela was on the eve of its first presidential recall referendum, and an epic struggle was being waged by the country’s workers and poor to defend their populist leader, President Hugo Chávez, from attacks from the right wing.
40 parties hit increased repression in Iran
While much of the media’s coverage of Iran in recent weeks has focused on the pros and cons of its nuclear energy program, a recent public statement by 40 left, Communist and workers’ parties about “a new wave of suppression in Iran” has received less attention.
