Florida, engulfed in a world of pain
ARCADIA, Fla. — As the people of Florida were digging out from Hurricane Charley Aug. 25, three Marine sergeants arrived at the home of Carlos Arredondo in Hollywood, Fla.
Bush to privatize military health staff
Bush’s Pentagon has announced a new privatization scheme for military physicians and other health personnel that goes along with its Iraq strategy of having private contractors perform heretofore routine U.S. military functions.
N. Calif. PWW banquet to celebrate labor, peace and solidarity
OAKLAND, Calif. — Labor, peace and solidarity organizations and their leaders from around the Greater Bay Area will headline this year’s “all new” Beat-Back-Bush People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo Banquet on Friday evening, Oct 8.
Airline crews should have been warned
On Sept. 10, 2001, I was a United Airlines flight attendant, working a night flight from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco. My co-workers and I drank coffee and watched the stars pass by our windows, remarking that we relished a quiet night after the busy summer travel season.
Oil rivalry, strife afflict the Caucasus
Breakaway autonomous regions in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan are creating a headache for the Bush administration’s geopolitical planners.
Black lawmakers urge legalizing immigrants
If you listen to President George Bush, the only way Mexicans can avoid the illegal and sometimes deadly trip across the U.S. border is to come as guest workers — temporary contract laborers for U.S. industry and agriculture.
Iranian party demands end to repression
Amidst recent reports of escalating repression by Iran’s intelligence services against the country’s progressive forces, including the use of physical assault, kidnapping, and torture against those defending democratic rights and freedom of expression, the Tudeh (People’s) Party of Iran has called for the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to come clean about the mass execution of political prisoners during what it calls “the National Catastrophe of 1988.”
Chinas unions and migrant workers: Building a better future together
In the last quarter century, former agricultural workers and peasants have increasingly migrated from rural China to work all or part of the year in the cities, as industrialization and urbanization have greatly accelerated with the policies of “reform and opening up” which have brought reorganization of state-owned enterprises and development of a private sector featuring both domestic and foreign capital.
Cuban Americans denounce Bush travel restrictions as anti-family
MIAMI — An angry backlash has erupted in Miami’s “Little Havana” against George W. Bush’s new regulations sharply limiting Cuban Americans’ contacts with their families in Cuba.click here for Spanish text
Philly unions working without a contract
PHILADELPHIA — Unionized city workers here who provide essential public services, excluding police and fire personnel, are now in their third month working without a contract.
