Letters
Still relevant; Danger of fascism; Don’t want to look at him; On ‘Stalinism’; TMDs; Shameless effrontery; Health care for all
Global solidarity day for miners
TUCSON, Ariz. — “Let the corporation tremble with our solidarity!” thundered Mexican Miners Union leader Juan Linares to hundreds of cheering copper miners, retirees and supporters rallying in De Anza Park here June 21.
Letters
Western Sahara exchange; Attack on Soviet Union is wrong; No retreat; Concealing class; More on meat ; Global AIDS crisis
Editorial: An uneasy summer
On the first day of summer, June 21, the Winn-Dixie grocery chain, located primarily in the Southeast, announced that 22,000 workers would end up on the street and over 300 stores will be darkened.
Labor Update
‘Like working in the tailpipe of a bus’; JwJ to meet Sept. 22–25; Unity resolutions
Capital campaign tops $330,000
CHICAGO — The campaign to raise money for three working-class centers of unity, action and education reached $330,000 last week, just $70,000 shy of its $400,000 goal. With two weeks left in the campaign, spokespeople for the New York-based Chelsea Fund for Education and Chicago-based Workers Education Society — the co-sponsoring, nonprofit entities — are cautiously optimistic about reaching the goal by the July 1 deadline.
Bolivias crisis unresolved, say Communists
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The resignation of President Carlos Mesa, said the Communist Party of Bolivia, “has not solved the political crisis that burdens our country.”
Letters
Welcoming the discussion; Let’s work together; On U.S. socialism; Take back America?; Marxism without meat?
Labor Update
Methodists support EFCA; Bulls Eye on FMLA; Public support for United Airlines workers; Rutgers students won’t choke on Coke; NLRB give OK to nurses’ firing
OAS stands up to U.S., supports Venezuela
“Madam Secretary, democracy cannot be imposed,” said Celso Amorim, Brazil’s foreign minister, in reply to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the 35th General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS). “Latin America has its own identity,” he said. “It has recuperated its dignity — not to confront the United States, but to confront imperialist politics.”
