Article Listing

  • EDITORIAL: Tell Senate: Uphold immigrant rights!

    EDITORIAL: Tell Senate: Uphold immigrant rights!

    March 25, 2006

    It’s a recurring theme in American history: The mass media plays up the demagogy of reactionaries who use ignorance and prejudice to blame immigrants for major social ills. Reactionary politicians who rely on disunity to achieve...

    Read more
  • WSF photographs develop another world view

    WSF photographs develop another world view

    March 24, 2006

    The World Social Forum by the numbers: • Over 80,000 participated in the Caracas, Venezuela, WSF, Jan. 24–29. Of these 2,000 came from the U.S. • 160 countries were represented. • Of the over 2,000 events...

    Read more
  • NewsAnalysis: Next steps in transit workers fightback

    NewsAnalysis: Next steps in transit workers fightback

    March 24, 2006

    Many New Yorkers were inspired by the strike of Transport Workers Union Local 100 against the efforts of the Metropolitan Transit Authority to cut back on workers’ pensions and health care. People understood that the two-tier...

    Read more
  • Struggle to save jobs at Winchester continues

    Struggle to save jobs at Winchester continues

    March 24, 2006

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The struggle to save unionized manufacturing jobs and continue the 140-year production of Winchester sporting arms in New Haven has attracted national and international attention as the Belgian Herstal Group prepares to...

    Read more
  • Union drive crashes the party

    Union drive crashes the party

    March 24, 2006

    CHICAGO — Shirley Brown, 47, works very hard. Every day the 10-year veteran housekeeper with Resurrection Health Care Westlake Hospital here pushes her supply cart through the hospital, mopping, wiping and scrubbing, cleaning waiting rooms, patient-care...

    Read more