CPUSA demands federal support for Katrina survivors
The Communist Party USA reacted with outrage and sorrow to the tragedy inflicted on the people of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, a tragedy compounded by what it called the “slow motion” response of the federal government.
NYU grad students demand fair contract
NEW YORK — AFL-CIO President John Sweeney was arrested along with over 80 others, including top labor leaders, elected officials and rank-and-file activists, in a civil disobedience action Aug. 31 supporting GSOC/UAW Local 2110, the graduate student workers’ union battling New York University for a contract.
Boeing strikers see no reason for takeaways
Over 18,000 aircraft workers in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan., hit the picket lines Sept. 2 rather than accept takeaways insisted on by Boeing Corporation. The company took in $1.87 billion in profits last year, International Association of Machinists spokesperson Connie Kelliher told the World.
Labor Day in Pittsburgh with the PWW
We had a great Labor Day Parade — with all the unions, including SEIU and the Teamsters. In all, about 65,000 union members march in the ’Burgh. Pittsburgh is usually the third largest Labor Day Parade, behind New York and Detroit. This year we edged out Detroit!
Posada tries to evade extradition
EL PASO, Texas — Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-Cuba terrorist who is facing deportation from the United States, has withdrawn his petition for political asylum but reportedly still hopes to either remain in the U.S. or be deported to El Salvador, his last known place of residence.
Caravan: Iraq war diverts needed resources
Cindy Sheehan and several dozen other Gold Star family members, military families and veterans closed up their Crawford, Texas, encampment last week and fanned out in three whistle-stop tours across the nation, headed to the nation’s capital with the message, “No more lies, bring the troops home now.” They will join thousands expected in Washington, D.C., for a national Bring Them Home Now rally Sept. 24 and congressional lobbying Sept. 26, where they will press lawmakers to put a stop to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Too little, too late on hurricane response
WASHINGTON — Recovery workers began the grisly search for the dead in the flooded streets of New Orleans as Mayor C. Ray Nagin predicted that the toll from Hurricane Katrina may reach 10,000, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. click here for Spanish text
Anti-Sikh massacres still haunt Indian National Congress, 21 years later
NEW DELHI — In the wake of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards on Oct. 31, 1984, a wave of anti-Sikh violence swept through the nation’s capital and neighboring towns.
Cuba offers aid for Katrina victims
Our country is ready to send, in the small hours of morning, 100 clinicians and specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, who at dawn tomorrow, Saturday, could be in Houston International Airport, Texas, the closest to the region struck by the tragedy, in order to be transferred by air, sea or river to the isolated shelters, facilities and neighborhoods in the city of New Orleans, where the population and families are that require emergency medical care or first aid.
How the Free Market Killed New Orleans
The free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Armed with advanced warning that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and surrounding areas, what did officials do? They played the free market.
