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Labor activists question mayoral endorsement

September 9, 2005

News Analysis NEW YORK — Labor activists are puzzled as to why a few important unions here have given their endorsement to incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the upcoming mayoral election. His tenure has been marked...

Communist Party, USA Demands Full Federal Support For Katrina Victims

September 4, 2005

Hurricane Katrina has inflicted an immense and unspeakable tragedy on the people of the Gulf Coast. The situation grows worse by the hour. The Mayor of New Orleans estimates that thousands have died and as many...

Venezuela Matters

September 2, 2005

CHICAGO — During an Aug. 24 press conference with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who denounced televangelist Pat Robertson’s call for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s assassination, the consul general of Venezuela, Martin Sanchez, announced a multimedia cultural...

Letters

September 2, 2005

Wrong from the start Cindy Sheehan is trying to show that the Bush war on Iraq is wrong, and was wrong from the start. This war has absolutely nothing at all to do with American freedom...

Editorial: Labor Day 2005

September 2, 2005

Labor Day 2005 Asked in June to take the pulse of his members, neighbors and friends, Ohio autoworker union leader Lloyd McHaffrey replied, “Everybody’s uneasy.” On Labor Day weekend, that mood has shifted from unease to...