News – Page 5317 – People's World

Iraqi workers up against U.S. corporations

July 4, 2003

U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW), a nationwide network of labor groups, recently presented an exposé of the U.S. corporate invasion of Iraq under cover of the U.S.-British occupation. The report was presented to the Workers’...

Albano named PWW editor, Wheeler to cover nations capital

July 4, 2003

The editorial board of the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo has named Terrie Albano editor. Albano is the first woman editor of the newspaper, which traces its lineage back to the 1924 Daily Worker. “The editorship of...

Pride march celebrates court ruling

July 4, 2003

NEW YORK – The 250,000 people crowded along Fifth Avenue June 29 to take part in and watch the 34th annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Pride March were celebrating something more specific than the ongoing...

Workers tell Bush: Hands off overtime

July 4, 2003

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of angry workers from across the nation picketed the U.S. Labor Department June 30 to protest a new Bush administration regulation that could terminate overtime pay for eight million workers. The Labor Department...

Israeli Communist leader Meir Vilner dies at 84

July 1, 2003

Meir Vilner, veteran leader of the Communist Party of Israel and the last living signatory of Israel’s Independence Charter, died June 5 in Tel-Aviv at 84. Vilner was born in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in...